Showing posts with label Tar Sands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tar Sands. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Payroll Cut extended and Pipeline will accelerate
From The New York Times:
Senate Reaches Tentative Deal to Extend Payroll-Tax Cut by Two Months
Senate leaders said Friday night that they had reached a deal that would extend a payroll tax cut for two months. The agreement also would speed construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast — a provision necessary to win over Republicans who opposed the tax break.
News of the deal came as the 112th Congress lurched toward the end of its tumultuous first session. Earlier Friday the House finished off one of its last major pieces of business for the year with a 296-121 vote to approve a $1 trillion spending bill that would keep the government funded through Sept. 30, 2012. The Senate is set to approve it today.
Read more at The New York Times.
Big Oil cut a back-room deal with the dirtiest Members of Congress to attach this legislation to a must-pass tax cut bill. These kinds of deals exemplify the tyranny Big Oil exercises over our government, and underscores why the President needs to threaten a veto, so says TarSandsAction.org.
Basically I am against both of these actions. People working need to pay the 6.2% into FICA. To continue to deplenish Social Security is ridiculous. The government needs to look at long term results, not short term. As far as the Tar Sands, see my blog on that subject.
Senate Reaches Tentative Deal to Extend Payroll-Tax Cut by Two Months
Senate leaders said Friday night that they had reached a deal that would extend a payroll tax cut for two months. The agreement also would speed construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast — a provision necessary to win over Republicans who opposed the tax break.
News of the deal came as the 112th Congress lurched toward the end of its tumultuous first session. Earlier Friday the House finished off one of its last major pieces of business for the year with a 296-121 vote to approve a $1 trillion spending bill that would keep the government funded through Sept. 30, 2012. The Senate is set to approve it today.
Read more at The New York Times.
Big Oil cut a back-room deal with the dirtiest Members of Congress to attach this legislation to a must-pass tax cut bill. These kinds of deals exemplify the tyranny Big Oil exercises over our government, and underscores why the President needs to threaten a veto, so says TarSandsAction.org.
Basically I am against both of these actions. People working need to pay the 6.2% into FICA. To continue to deplenish Social Security is ridiculous. The government needs to look at long term results, not short term. As far as the Tar Sands, see my blog on that subject.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Tar Sands Action
Comment Up
I really believe in being energy independent. Who wants the Mid-East controlling prices on virtually everything that we buy? It is an area with constant unrest, uprisings and rebellion, literally an "oilquake" waiting to happen. We must have affordable petroleum. Like an addict, however, we must reduce our reliance on oil and break our $500 billion-a-year addiction and have other affordable choices for fuel.
It has been said that there is enough oil in the Gulf of Mexico to sustain the US for the next 50 years at current usage levels. The trouble is that the oil is in VERY DEEP water. This is a political nightmare after the BP disaster. Sarah Palin wants to "drill baby drill." However, when I see a video like this, it is shocking. Greed supersedes all else and it rules all over the world.
We need to stop raiding our treasury for other people's wars and other countries problems and invest in our own country's future. Reduce the national debt and stop running our country on credit. Give businesses huge tax breaks to invest in this country and limit any outsourcing of jobs and manufacturing plants. Stop allowing our enemies to get the upper hand. End this imbalance of trade and turn it in the other direction. We are building up the economies of the world to the detriment of ours. Unions, get smart. (I always like to throw that one in there for Mary Lindsey):)
I really believe in being energy independent. Who wants the Mid-East controlling prices on virtually everything that we buy? It is an area with constant unrest, uprisings and rebellion, literally an "oilquake" waiting to happen. We must have affordable petroleum. Like an addict, however, we must reduce our reliance on oil and break our $500 billion-a-year addiction and have other affordable choices for fuel.
It has been said that there is enough oil in the Gulf of Mexico to sustain the US for the next 50 years at current usage levels. The trouble is that the oil is in VERY DEEP water. This is a political nightmare after the BP disaster. Sarah Palin wants to "drill baby drill." However, when I see a video like this, it is shocking. Greed supersedes all else and it rules all over the world.
We need to stop raiding our treasury for other people's wars and other countries problems and invest in our own country's future. Reduce the national debt and stop running our country on credit. Give businesses huge tax breaks to invest in this country and limit any outsourcing of jobs and manufacturing plants. Stop allowing our enemies to get the upper hand. End this imbalance of trade and turn it in the other direction. We are building up the economies of the world to the detriment of ours. Unions, get smart. (I always like to throw that one in there for Mary Lindsey):)
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