Yesterday's Washington Examiner posted an article on the impact on unemployment that the Obama Administration's 'green policies' are having.
The article reports that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson "promises to issue a draft rule next year and a final rule in 2012 that will establish new "performance standards" for power plants and refineries. These standards will drive up the cost of energy, especially the electricity that lights our homes and powers our computers and teh gas that keeps our cars and trucks running."
The article reports that Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar "has invented out of whole cloth a "Wild Lands" designation that entirely circumvents the congressionally sanctioned process." According to the Constitution, Congress has exclusive authority to manage U. S. public lands. The wilderness areas, national parks and other public lands are overseen by the Department of Interior because Congress has given them that authority.
The article concludes:
"If these White House-sanctioned bureaucratic coups against congressional authority are allowed to stand, the tombstone on the U. S. economy should read: "Here lies the most powerful engine of prosperity the world has ever seen. Strangled by Barack Obama, Lisa Jackson and Ken Salazar."
Hopefully one of the first moves of the new Congress will be to reclaim the U. S. Constitution.
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