VOTER ALERT: Cap-and-Trade Bill Set for FRIDAY Vote

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN!!

According to The Wall Street Journal, the cap-and-trade legislation co-sponsored by California and Massachusetts Democrats Henry Waxman and Ed Markey will likely reach a vote on the House floor on Friday.

This bill is an absolute nightmare, and will result in nothing short of sheer destruction of American business and industry, and will exponentially increase energy costs for individuals and families of all income levels from coast to coast.

For background information, including an assessment of the likely costs of the legislation, check out a previous piece here at America's Right, The Exponentially Increasing Costs of a Manufactured Environmental Crisis, as well as a companion piece, 'Green' Spokesmouths Need to Curb Emissions.

Find your representative's office number HERE. Call it. Call it NOW. It doesn't matter if they are a Democrat, a Republican, or somewhere in between. Let them know that their vote on this disastrous bill is a bona fide determinative factor when it comes to their re-election in 2010. Support means they're going home, plain and simple.

I cannot stress enough exactly how devastating this piece of legislation is. Frankly, I am absolutely astounded that something so detrimental to our national economy is even being considered nonetheless voted upon, even by Democrats.

This is winnable for concerned Americans like you and like me. Let's make sure this doesn't make it out of the House.

CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN!!