Hang onto your wallet.  Odds are that if it’s not empty now it will be even sooner than your grandchildren’s paychecks are being spent by President Obama and Congress. 

The Supreme Court has previously ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act, requiring regulation if they pose a danger.  I can’t help but think of Captain Picard on Star Trek saying, “Make it so” as the EPA releases their report stating that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare.  Like when stars align, it illuminates President Obama’s push for cap & trade and the Democrats in Congress are positively salivating over the prospects of further control over private industry; hearings begin next week on the American Clean Energy and Security Act which was introduced last month. 

Among other, less obvious effects than that of significantly increasing the cost of everything from heating and cooling to food and other goods and transportation, this bill contains provisions to help people buy a new manufactured home if they live in one made before 1976, it will fund “training and funding assistance” to states that “adopt advanced building efficiency codes” and fund retrofitting existing commercial and residential buildings to improve energy efficiency.  Efficiency ratings that have yet to be determined, of course.

All that more expensive heating and cooling will eventually be controlled by a “smart grid”, run by graduates of colleges funded by government grants to develop “curriculum and training programs that prepare students for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other forms of climate change mitigation.”   Meaning that the government will decide when giving you electricity just isn’t in everyone’s best interests.  And the utility companies will be on the hook to make sure that you and I are saving energy.

And let’s not forget about taking the “program” international.  You got it, it includes working (read:  funding) with the U.N., too.

All of this will be paid for, of course, by our hard-earned tax dollars.

And yet, reports are now coming out of Australia that the Antarctic ice cap is growing, providing another obvious contradiction to the popular myth that the Earth is getting warmer.  About as obvious a contradiction as the snowfall shutting down Denver as I write this piece, eh?  Curiously, the House bill states those dangerous gases “may not be regulated as criteria pollutants or hazardous air pollutants on the basis of their effect on global warming”.  But take heart, global warming devotees and those alleged environmental protection groups so utterly dependent upon the donations of those global warming devotees!  Despite this administration’s continuing negative impact on the United States economy and therefore the lives of its hard-working citizens, there is one wee light glimmering at the end of the tunnel.  And I’m not talking about the House bill that was introduced on April 2, 2009 that intends to use our hard-earned tax money so that the government can “educate” everyone about the dangers of global warming.  No, indeed.  What I’m here to tell you is that you, too, can get rich from global warming!  There’s a little-discussed provision to amend Section 304 of the Clean Air Act that was tossed into the House’s draft climate regulation bill that will allow ordinary citizens to sue the federal government if they feel they have suffered – or simply “expect” to suffer – from those EPA-declared-as-dangerous greenhouse gases or even negative effects from “climate change”.

Just wait until your spouse rolls over in the middle of the night and snores in your face, thereby showering you with all that evil carbon dioxide.  Forget all that nonsense about second-hand smoke, don’t you realize that just the fact that someone breathes makes them dangerous?  Now if you don’t like the fact that large numbers of people gather together, you can claim you are in harm’s way because they are  increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in that area.  All you have to do is file a lawsuit and Pater Obama will come to the rescue and pay you damages.   Of course, there’s only enough funding being requested to give 20 people that $75,000 damages award each year.

Little surprise leftover, then, when the latest Obama appointee, a confirmed left-wing radical with direct ties to George Soros and now working in the Defense Department (can you say “dangerous oxymoron”?), is suggesting a plan to bail out newspapers that will only server to accelerate their inability to perform honest and fair reporting by putting them directly under the control of the federal government.