With the election ending, I hope that our leaders can get back to focusing on the issues and getting our problems solved.
There are many important issues, but one that has been on the back burner for far too long is a long-term energy policy. I recently read that the EPA would like to change ozone level standards, lowering the level of parts per billion from the current 75 to 60. Sounds good in theory, but it would probably cost businesses billions per year for what would amount to little to no benefit. As a small business owner for 15 years, this scares me.
I hope that in the coming months, we can all come together to create a smart energy policy that helps business AND the environment.
Troy Hyde, Tempe
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Bingo6 posted at 9:48 am on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
Come on Troy, you must be new here.
If you really think that the citizens of AZ actually give C*** about mundane issues like the Environment and the EPA well, then you moved to the wrong state.
Although I share your issue and opinion, you have to reliize what this election was all about.
It is about a bunch of mostly white 35 and older white dudes, who are so afraid of a black man in the white house and a state where Hispanics have lived for centuries, that they had to make a statement, so.
What did the do, well these crackers, voted in their planatation owners to do but one thing, make people who have views like you I, along with all minorities, (Black, Hispanic, women, progressives, other who have religions other than the evangelical type), behave an be put back in our place.
They are now able to make all of us, and especially our President, their new "Step 'N Fetchit" slaves.
You and I need to be afraid, very afraid. We been moved to the back of the bus, and if we don't shut the h*** up their going to be at our door and dragging you and me into the streets for a public hanging.
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LinMesa posted at 1:17 pm on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
Bingo6, I hate to disappoint you but as an Evangelical Christian, I agree with everything you said. I believe that if all Christians would take time out of every day to read the Bible, attend church and Bible study maybe they would see things differently. God tells us exactly how He wants us to live and Republicans don't seem to want any part of it.
Mike1200 posted at 11:15 pm on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
I'm not even going to respond to Bingos racist dribble except to say you don't even know me and you're calling me a racist. You couldn't be more wrong. I flat out don't like the road your poor excuse for a president and his pals are taking this country. From the looks of the election results i'm not the only one that feels that way and i'll bet you the majority of those people aren't racist either.
As for Linmesa since i am a republican i'm wondering exactly how I should live my life. Maybe you can steer me in the right direction.
I new you libs would be whining after the election and after reading these two posts it looks like your doing an excellent job.
Dale Whiting posted at 10:21 am on Mon, Nov 8, 2010.
Bingo6, LinMesa and Mike 1200,
Let's focus on Troy's hopes. He focuses on long term energy policy and worries that a short term solution, cutting ozone stardards, could become a long term situation leading to long term harm. Troy, we can all move to Canada!
Bingo6 is the never failing pessimist he always has been. Not saying he is wrong. But no one likes a persistent pessimist.
LinMesa is the never failing optimist whose faith is in religion. Better read Revelations more carefully LinMesa. It does not portent much to be thankful in the short or intermediate term.
Mike1200 [and others consider this}
The middle class to which we most certainly all belong had as its origins the willingness of capitalists to share with labor the fruits of the industrial age. Henry Ford reasoned that if he paid a decent wage to his factory workers, they could buy his products. That was the first "trickle down" theory of economics, the only one which has ever worked.
Now productivity is trickling down over seas. We have got to reinvent a new industrial age. Any one got any ideas? Otherwise we all need to keep a sharp eye out for 5 acres and a Missouri mule to plow it. We will be going back to being agrarians, our starting point 100 years ago.
Mike1200 posted at 10:16 pm on Mon, Nov 8, 2010.
Dale
I agree with your comment about capitalism. Thats the reason i'm so against obama. A start would be to get small business going again in this country, but they are afraid to invest in anything so they hang on to their money. I can't blame them either because they have no idea what great policies obama is going to come up with next that could hurt them. It could be higher taxes, cap and tax or who knows what else. I don't know what the answer is either but it isn't barack obamas policies.
Dale Whiting posted at 4:54 am on Sat, Nov 13, 2010.
Mike1200.
Too bad you have not read President Obama's books. What I say is entirely consistent with his reasoning. Let's look at your "wish list."
First, get small business going! And just how is that done? Surely not by Reaganomics! Even Ronnie did not believe in Reaganomics. I learned my Economics from Ronnie's first chairman of his economic advisory council. Murray quit when Ronnie decided to follow Ed Meece and not Murray.
Second, you claim that small busness entrepeneurs are affraid to invest and therefore hold onto their money. Just where do you get this notion? It is baloney. Those with money to invest are investing it overseas or in high tech state side operations which are yet to take off. Such high tech enterprises are the topic of much of President Obama's thinking on fixing the economy. Aren't you listening?
Third, those harmful ideas you seem to fear are not harmful. None of the rich are calling for lowering taxes. And chances are, that money which will be invested will be exempted from taxation. Listen for the emerging details.
And Cap and Trade is not, nor ever has been a tax. It has been and is the most efficient means to regulate the problem of the "Commons." From the sound of your reasoning, you know nothing whatsoever about this problem. Why don't you read my letter to the editor on Cap and Trade.
In conclusion, I truely do agree with you on your final point, that being "I don't know what the answer is either." But I do not agree with your assumption that Barack Obama is clueless and misguided. You have a heck of a lot of reading and learning to do.
Start by reading Fareed Sakaria's most recent piece in Time Magazine. He reviews the first and second Republican Revolutions, Reaganomics and Gingrich's Contract with America, showing them both to have been hipe and inconsistent action. Then he calls Republicans to "put up or shut up" on this, the Third Republican Revolution.
After reading Fareed, you are challenged to report back here on what you have learned.
Mike1200 posted at 9:30 pm on Mon, Nov 15, 2010.
Dale
1st off I will not be spending my time reading a book by barack hussein obama the most anti US president we have ever had anytime soon.
Also I’d be willing to bet you are a democrat and I’m a conservative so we aren’t going to agree on much of anything.
Anyway, I don’t see how investing money overseas is going to create jobs in this country. Why are they investing overseas? why not in this country? I'd be willing to bet they are worried about this president and his policies. Yes, I have heard about the going green high tech jobs but we are going to need a lot more than jobs of that type to get this economy growing. Seems to me I heard small business creates 60 to 70 percent of the jobs in this country and like I said sending money overseas isn’t going to help that situation.
As far as global warming, or Climate change or what ever you want to call it today “it’s the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” that’s what the weather channel founder called it.
If they ever pass cap and tax and then I decide to drive my RV on a trip or take my boat up to the lake and I have to pay extra money to buy gas because of so called global warming I don’t know what else you’d call it but a tax. What makes it worse is I would be forced to spend extra money when it isn’t even a proven fact that we art “destroying” the planet with CO2. And what is their goal? To punish and tax us into doing what they want. Another means of control.
I remember obama talking about electricity costs. I remember he said if cap and tax passes electricity bills would skyrocket. That would be just great when we live in the desert and already pay $200 a month or more to keep a house at 80 degrees during the summer months. I don't know about you but i'm not going to be able to afford a electricity bill that's 300 or 400 dollars during the summer months.