While our economy continues to slog through recession, while Congress and the President authorized spending even more money that we don’t have in the form of "tax rebates", and while we already pay close to 20 cents per gallon in federal gasoline taxes, Congressman John Dingell from Michigan, is proposing another 50-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline.
This would:
- Do nothing to stop "global warming"
- Impose even more unnecessary "sin taxes" upon us
- Bring the economy to a screeching halt
While Dingell’s idea will likely lie dormant until after the 2008 election, the idea of carbon taxes is not. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain all support some type of system that either directly or indirectly will raise prices to penalize polluters.
Michigan Congressman Wants 50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas
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United Nations Headquarters (AHN) - Long an advocate for poor internally displaced persons in third world countries, the United Nations on Thursday called on the United States government to halt demolition of low-income housing in New Orleans saying it violated the human rights of Hurricane Katrina victims and was driving them into "destitution."
In a strongly worded statement posted on its news center website, U.N. experts on housing and minority rights called the Bush administration to task for its treatment of Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans and elsewhere.
"We are deeply concerned about information we continue to receive about the housing situation of people in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region," Miloon Kothari, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and Gay McDougall, the Independent Expert on minority issues, said in a joint statement.
Their concern was heightened by the fact that although there are 12,000 homeless people in New Orleans, demolition has begun on St. Bernard public housing development, and three other public housing developments are scheduled to be torn down in the near future, but there are no immediate plans to replace those units with other low-income housing.
Dear United Nations:
Mind your own damn business.
Sincerely,
The United States of America
Be sure to read more about the "destitution" in New Orleans by reading Part 3 of our series, The Entitlement Nation.
Original article: U.N. Criticizes U.S. For Violating Human Rights Of Internally Displaced Hurricane Katrina Victims | March 12, 2008 | AHN
Can someone explain how this isn’t hate speech?
If this "sermon" is rewritten to transpose "white" and "black", and to replace the prominent white leaders with black ones, et cetera, it would be something akin to a KKK speech. Why is Reverend Wright not vilified? Why is Barack Obama given a pass for his close association with Reverend Wright?
Barack Obama chose to belong to Reverend Wright’s church. He chose to attend for over 20 years. If he didn’t agree with the message why did he continue to attend?