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The end effect of cap and trade is to hike costs across the board to cover  
this, the poorest will be hurt the most. Similarly, forcing health care 
costs on  everyone will also hurt the poor working class the most. The result 
is that the  amount one must make to be above the poverty line will jump 
15-20 percent to  cover health care alone and another several points to cover 
cap and trade costs.  The best answer will be to quit working and go on the 
public dole, then health  care is free and the govt. will raise the welfare 
payments to cover the cost  increases for cap and trade. 
 
Drew
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/24/2009 7:23:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com writes:


>  In that clip he doesn't say "skyrocket"  He says "will necessarily  
rise."

Actually he did say "skyrocket". For years environmentalists  have wanted 
to 
force the ones causing the pollution to pay for cleaning up  their act, and 
I've been one of those people. It hurts when that cost is  passed along to 
us. If we did that with industrial agriculture, food costs  would go up, 
too. 
We've been living large and cheap at the expense of the  environment.

What I don't think Obama gets is that the people  willing/able to pay more 
for 'environmentally friendly' energy or food are  already doing it. The 
rest 
will fight him all the way. Just like health  insurance; if the working 
poor 
could afford it, they'd already have it.  Forcing them to buy health 
insurance (or pay a lot more for energy or  food) when they can't pay the 
bills they already have isn't the answer. I  don't know what is.

Lynn Wigglesworth  

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