Cap And Trade: Productive Farmland To Be Turned Into Forests

The “Cap and Trade” climate bill has been out of the headlines (exactly where Washington wants it) while the world is glued to Obamacare and Ted Kennedy’s convenient death. It’s still coming, unfortunately, and we’d be wise to keep up the pressure on Congress. It may be hard to imagine, but Cap and Trade could be more destructive to our nation than socialized health care. That’s pretty damn bad. Democrats have already said they’d go nuclear (via reconciliation) to pass both.

An Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows that under the House bill– new forests would spread across the American landscape, replacing both pasture and farm fields. Cap and Trade gives financial incentives to farmers and ranchers to plant trees versus food crops.

The bill would allow landowners who “reduce carbon dioxide” by NOT planting food, to sell carbon permits to “polluters” like power plants. Those suckers are going to become quite valuable if Cap and Tax passes. Bonus: credit-owners can sell credits in a new market provided exclusively by Goldman Sachs. Whee!

When was the last time a re-forestation plan this enormous occurred in the U.S.? F.D.R.’s Civilian Conservation Corps, which lasted from 1933 to 1942, planted 3 billion trees. Make-work that drastically decreases food production? Brilliant.

The plan would be hard on ranchers and farmers, and food prices will surely soar. Cap and Tax will touch every corner of our economy as-is, and will make virtually everything more expensive…including food. A reduction in food production would only exacerbate the misery. What kind of boneheaded move is this, when we already have reduced production due to farmers growing corn for ethanol?

The Senate is likely to consider a similar bill to the Apollo Alliance and Tides Foundation-written House plan this fall. Obama’s Green Czar, Van Jones, has already been given control of billions from the Stimulus plan. He will gain immense power if Cap and Trade passes.

Don’t take your eyes off the whole picture– part of the liberal strategy is to overload you. Cap and Trade needs to stay in the forefront of your protests; Democrats have threatened to pass it via reconciliation just like they have with Obamacare. They are willing to ram both through with simple majority votes…via a practice not meant for legislation other than budgets. Turn the table on your Representatives who are holding town halls between now and September 8th. Ask them about Cap and Trade–which Obama has admitted will make electricity costs SOAR. I assure you, they probably haven’t read the almost 1500 page-long bill. Here it is, so you can.

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