The Bill Still Sucks
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Sorry for being so blunt, but in spite of the assertion that we’re better off because the United States Department of Agriculture will be riding herd on agriculture’s participation in the Climate Change Cap & Tax program things are not all right or even okay. Pretending a few corn farmers got healed, doesn’t make it any better for them or anyone else.
Congressman Frank Lucas of Oklahoma probably said more than he could ever have imagined, when he was quoted as saying, “My initial reaction to this deal is it doesn’t fix the real problems with the bill.” Amen! Congressman Lucas you have exactly summed up the situation…
We also salute the steadfast position taken by agricultural leaders with the American Farm Bureau Federation, sticking to the guns that this bill is not in the best interest of farm and ranch families – or anybody else’s family either.
The Waxman-Markey Climate Cap & Tax proposal should not be adopted by the U.S. House and if Speaker Pelosi gets her way in gaining passage, we have to rely on Senator Reid and the majority in the U.S. Senate to shut down this economic disaster-in-waiting. What would say the odds are of our Senator doing the right thing on that one?
Sorry for being so blunt, but in spite of the assertion that we’re better off because the United States Department of Agriculture will be riding herd on agriculture’s participation in the Climate Change Cap & Tax program things are not all right or even okay. Pretending a few corn farmers got healed, doesn’t make it any better for them or anyone else.
Congressman Frank Lucas of Oklahoma probably said more than he could ever have imagined, when he was quoted as saying, “My initial reaction to this deal is it doesn’t fix the real problems with the bill.” Amen! Congressman Lucas you have exactly summed up the situation…
We also salute the steadfast position taken by agricultural leaders with the American Farm Bureau Federation, sticking to the guns that this bill is not in the best interest of farm and ranch families – or anybody else’s family either.
The Waxman-Markey Climate Cap & Tax proposal should not be adopted by the U.S. House and if Speaker Pelosi gets her way in gaining passage, we have to rely on Senator Reid and the majority in the U.S. Senate to shut down this economic disaster-in-waiting. What would say the odds are of our Senator doing the right thing on that one?
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/25/2009 7:38 AM 
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Global Warming Congress
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Global Warming Congress
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