Congress Needs a More “Green” Future

It’s no secret that the climate keeps changing every year.  Just look at this year.  Us Oregonians haven’t had much of a hot summer this year.  According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. it is because of media and congress.

Kennedy Jr. blames the media because instead of reporting newsworthy things, journalists keep writing about how crazy Charlie Sheen is and are wondering what he will do next.  Kennedy Jr. thinks that journalists need stories that actually matter and that will make a difference in the world.

Kennedy Jr. also thinks that congress is to blame because they are cutting the tops off of mountains and mining there and that they should follow the EPA and put a price on carbon and mercury from coal plants.

“Then the administration needs to help construct a national grid system that functions as a marketplace for renewable power. We need a marketplace that turns every American into an energy entrepreneur and every home into a power plant, that powers our country on what Franklin Roosevelt called “America’s industrial genius.” We need a national program like Eisenhower launched in the 1950s and 60s to reconstruct our highway system and have it reach every community in the country.”, said Kennedy Jr., “Right now we have a marketplace for energy in this country that is rigged by rules that were written by the incumbents to favor the dirtiest, filthiest, most poisonous, most destructive, most addictive fuels from hell, rather than the cheap, clean, green, abundant, and wholesome fuels from heaven.”

Kennedy Jr.’s outline for getting America more “green” is:
1.) Immediately implement a carbon cap and trade system to diminish carbon emissions.
2.) Invest in a new backbone high-voltage, power-transmission grid so that it can deliver solar, wind, geothermal, and other renewable energy across the country.

Senator Bernie Sanders agrees with what Kennedy Jr. has to say.

“We have the potential to create millions of good-paying jobs in energy efficiency, in wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, when we finally have the courage to say there is something absurd about bringing into this country 350 billion dollars with foreign oil every single year, which makes us vulnerable from a geopolitical point of view, does not give us energy independence, and as Senator Merkley said, makes the Saudi Royal Family — one of the richest families in the world — even richer.”  states Sanders.

If America wants to get out of debt then congress needs to quit spending money on pointless things, for example reconstructing Lady Liberty and spending $15 million to do it.  America can’t afford to pay their bills, but somehow can find money to reconstruct Lady Liberty?  Makes Americans wonder what congress is really doing with tax payers money.

For questions or comments, call up your senators and let your opinion be known.  Let congress know how you feel about how your tax dollars are being spent on pointless things when just weeks ago congress was debating whether to cut social security, military pay, and welfare.  Let congress know how disappointed you are in them.  They are our elected leaders and instead of finding a way out of the hole, they just keep digging us deeper and into the hole.  Tell congress what you want your tax money spent on.

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