EPA attacks coal plants!

As our lawmakers are grandstanding and whining and complaining about the other side of the aisle in regard to saving the working class Americans' money, the real hit to our pocketbooks is taking shape.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Jan. 3 new mercury restrictions on coal power plants that will impose anywhere from $10 billion (EPA's estimate) to $200 billion (third-party estimates) in new costs on energy production. On a per household basis, that imposes anywhere from $100 to $2,000 in additional energy costs upon the average U.S. household each and every year.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims that while the regulations will cost electricity producers $10.9 billion annually, they will save 17,000 lives and generate up to $140 billion in health benefits.

Earlier in 2011, Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, released these comments that were printed in the Wall Street Journal: "There is no factual basis for these assertions. To build its case against mercury, the EPA systematically ignored evidence and clinical studies that contradict its regulatory agenda, which is to punish hydrocarbon use."

U.S. electricity prices have already increased by nearly 50 percent during the past decade and the EPA's new restrictions will merely accelerate that trend. All of this is supposedly being put into place to "improve the environment," right? Many, many newspapers are reporting this story with similar headlines such as, "Finally, we will get clean air."

How about studying the quality of our air first? The EPA reports that mercury emissions in the United States have declined by approximately 60 percent since 1990.

So what is the real objective here?

Even President Obama once stated, "There will be 1 million electric vehicles on the highway by 2015."

Excuse me, sir! Electricity does not just come from an outlet in the wall. Over half of the electricity generated in the United States today comes from coal. And that, by the way, is a great thing because we have a couple hundred years' worth of coal available for our use. It is a tremendous resource that God granted us use of in order to improve human lives.

If the current EPA regulations go unchecked, by rational thinking it is reported that 60 percent of the coal-fired electricity generating power plants could be shut down. If that happens you can forget about plugging your electric car in. We will be back to running around the pastures searching for "buffalo chips" to heat our homes.

Nobody wants a dirty environment, but everybody should have a greater grasp on common sense and take a look at the big picture. All of this nonsense can be traced back to the flawed United Nations plan to make all nations equal when it comes to quality of life. And that, my American friends, means that you and I give up the essentials of life that we have worked so hard to accomplish since 1776. We aren't going to try to bring other nations up to our standard of living, we are going to drop down to theirs, according to the elitists at the UN.

Coal reserves are spread over almost 100 countries. Proven coal reserves are estimated to last over 200 years with current production rates. In contrast, proven oil and gas reserves are equivalent to around 40 and 60 years. Coal will continue to play a growing role in meeting U.S. energy needs because America's coal-based electricity providers have invested close to $100 billion in technologies to reduce emissions.

Once again, as is the case with most of these initiatives we fight on a daily basis, I do not believe the misguided individuals attempting to put an end to the use of coal as an energy source are the majority. However, it is quite clear that if we are going to continue the low cost custom of living that we have enjoyed in recent years as American citizens, we will have to fight to keep the lights on with real facts and not just warm and fuzzy emotions.

Obama Attacks American Farm Families

Farm kids band from working

 The Obama department of labor is attacking the core of America, farm families!

AAmerica was built by farmers and their families. Farming/ranching skills and passions are still passed down to the younger generation. Farm kids are raised with a respect for animals that develops by farming/ranching cores they are required to do. They witness birth, they see death and understand that at times, life is not fair. They see crops come up from their care and labor. They also know  heartache, as they watch the destruction of a rain or hail storm just before harvest. They delight in seeing the new born calves, sheep or baby pigs running and playing together. They remember those cold days drying off a baby and making sure it has a start in life. They also remember the sun coming up only to reveal their pet cow having it’s baby eaten by a coyote as it was born or a pack of town dogs ripping the belles out of the sheep flock. They understand life and death. They understand life is not fair but with hard work, life has many rewards. Farm kids have a real understanding of the commitment it takes to produce a health living thing. A quality that should be held in the highest regard and promoted in a civil society. 

 All families should work together as a team and farm/ranch families do just this on a daily bases. Ranch kids help each day with the care of crops and animals. They understand that those living things depend on them, depend on those kids to perform their job duties. Farm kids feed and water livestock each day before school. They clean pens, they shovel crap and mud, they work in snow, freezing cold and scorching heat. They do this because it is their way of life, how they contribute. to the family and how they earn respect as an individual. Farm kids work alongside their mother and father in the fields and orchards from a very young age. They drive tractors when they can just hold down a clutch (yes, not very many automatic transmissions on farm equipment). They spend their summers working, shoveling, picking, hoeing weeds, driving, riding, branding and doctoring. They also find time to jump in the stream, river or irrigation ditch to cool off,swim and play a game of tag with other farm kids. Those children have grown to be some of the greatest leaders in our nation! A heritage and way of life we most protect!

Sadly, this life style is in stark contrast to the Obama family, currently occupying the white house.

But why are federal agencies, led by President Obama appointees, intent on taking steps that will undermine and ultimately destroy our nation's agricultural heartland, our families?

It's no secret that liberals hold fatty, high-carbohydrate dairy and corn products directly responsible for our nation's obesity rates (funny, don’t see over weight farm kids).  They blame farting cows for a depleted ozone layer and consider ranching as a form of animal abuse. PETA, the American Humane Society and other animal rights organization demonize our rural lifestyle as an uncaring barbaric form of environmental exploitation. The urban schools teach and promote this same misconception to the gullible “city dwellers”.  Yet the government's attack on farm/ranch families by effectively banning farm kids from working on their own farms goes beyond outrageous. The intent can only be viewed as a full frontal attack on America.

Under new standards being advocated by the Obama Labor Department, youths under the age of eighteen would be prohibited from working in hay lofts, giving shots, caring for baby animals, and being in the vicinity of animals whose behavior may be "unpredictable."  So, the federal government under the direction of Obama would destroy one of Americas greatest treasures, the farm/ranch family.

Ask yourself, why?

Does Obama think that the mother and father of those farm/ranch kids are incapable of caring for and protecting their own children? Does the government think it has the right to interfere in a family’s lifestyle? Is there a hidden place in the constitution that gives the government such a power?

Lose our farm families and where would your food come from? 
Where would urban people go to get food? Do they understand that food is raised/produced, and does not magically appear on the super market shelves?

Or, does the government want to totally control the food production and distribution? Thank about that one!

For me, I remember the old Hank Jr song, “a country boy can survive”

City Dwellers, beware of what you vote for in 2012!

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Americans’ views of socialism

Did you know that capitalism received a largely favorable response in the latest poll on the subject? But that at least 25 percent of respondents across all age groups, races, income levels and ideologies were dismissive of capitalism. So understand this, 25% dislike our capitalist based economy.

As you may well expect, Tea Party supporters, Republicans and those making more than $75,000 a year had a positive view of our system, more than half of blacks and Hispanics took the opposite view. You need to ask yourself, why? What are they looking for and what do they believe would be a better (fairer) system? Is someone telling them that capitalism is bad and or unjust? Well sure, your setting president, Mr. Obama. Yet sadly he is not alone, liberals (school teachers and college professors)  the communist party members, socialist supporters and the democrat party and their leaders like Nancy and Harry make it their goal to brainwash as many people as possible in order to insure their political position and power.  

Close to 50 percent of those aged 18 to 29, those making less than $30,000 a year, Occupy Wall Street protestors and supporters also had an unfavorable reaction to capitalism. In my opinion, they wish for a bigger government, one that will take care of them and redistribute the wealth of America. Therefore they wish for and support the ideas that Obama and his cronies spew. Do you understand how many young people support this ideology? Scary huh!

Again, understand that the majority of blacks, liberals and democrats, like socialism! But while reactions to capitalism were fairly consistent across all age groups, 18-to-29-year-olds are three times more likely to approve of socialism over capitalism than those citizens 65 and older.

So what is going on? What happened? Is this decline to be blamed on those old folks for not educating their children properly? Or must we hold responsible and fault the education system and the main stream news media in the USA?

The Mad American Club believes it is a combination of the two. Americans need to forcibility stand up and denounce the new democrat party, liberal thinkers and leaders who promote, distribute lies and indoctrinate a gullible public.