Just one part in his plan to bring us down to OUR knees and turn us into Africa or any third world shit hole
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Obama “Clean Power” plan seen to hit seniors, minorities hardest
posted at 12:01 pm on October 9, 2014 by Jazz Shaw
In June, as you may recall, the EPA announced their new “
Clean Power Plan” which was, for all intents and purposes, another shot across the bow in the war on coal. In
their mission statement, while paying lip service to the fact that the needs and resources of each of the states are different, they also cite “the important role of states as full partners with the federal government in cutting pollution.” This is matched with the built in assumption of the need to “address the risks of climate change.” (Apparently nobody bothered to ask the states exactly how much of an “equal partnership” they were interested in.)
Now that the new rules are moving forward in the process and people have begun to take notice of what this will mean in the real world, one wonders precisely whose side the Obama administration is on. You’d think that the Democrats – long the
champions of the poor and oppressed – would have their best interests at heart… particularly with an election coming up. But
as Jim Martin noted at Town Hall recently, one of the most heavily affected groups will be senior citizens.
In the United States there are 27 million households aged 65 or older. […] The majority of our nation’s seniors are living on fixed incomes. For many of them, their primary source of income is social security. For those living on fixed incomes, seniors and non-seniors alike, any increase in household costs is hard to absorb, and electricity represent 61 percent of total residential bills for seniors…
Energy, like food and housing, is an indispensable necessity of life. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, electricity prices have jumped more than 6 percent in the Mid-Atlantic States last year alone. Yet, instead of alleviating the heavy financial burden of energy prices for seniors, President Obama is exacerbating the problem. He is proposing to reduce our nation’s carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030, and the impact would be devastating for our nation’s seniors.
This isn’t something that seniors have failed to take note of, either. In
a recent poll by the 60 Plus Association, 72% of likely voters aged 55 and above listed the effect of government regulations on their energy bills among their concerns. That’s an awfully big slice out of a demographic which is the most likely to show up and vote on election day.
But it’s not just seniors. Some of the hardest hit by rising energy costs
are America’s minorities.
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