Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Cap and Trade Bill Corrupted with Special Interest and Green groups not happy

The Chairman drops a 300 plus page Amendment at 3am in the morning just before the house votes for it. The Republicans are skeptical and the Democrats are ready to pass without even reading it.

What was added to corrupt the bill was tons of special interest, corporate agribusiness and Wall Street. The problem with the Democrats voting on this bill is that the party actually votes for bills now and they determine who is weakest in their party and who could be compromised with large numbers of Republicans in their voting district so they let those Democrats vote no. This huge groupthink situation has put our two party system at risk for corruption and failure.
In order for this piece of legislation to get passed this bill had to be more appealing to members and so many deals were made to special interest groups that the green groups are opposing it.

Many green groups are opposed to this bill. Friends of the earth stated in a news letter stating, “The bill that the house passed is corrupted by special interest as well as agribusiness and Wall Street. “ and then went on to say “this bill is counterproductive and guts the EPAs authority to fight global warming.”


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