Department of Offense

The prosperity and freedom of every American is at stake.
A few days ago, President Obama called Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to curtail state employee collective-bargaining protections an apparent “assault on unions.”

It’s no wonder President Obama would make such a ludicrous claim. Obama has much to fear as 2012 approaches because the Tea Party wave even hit Wisconsin last November.

The dramatic swing of Independent, conservative voters turned the state from liberal to conservative, defeated liberal Russ Feingold in the Senate and replaced the Democrat governor with Scott Walker, a conservative who believes in the values of small government and is courageously standing up to Big Labor.

Obama’s goal is to stay in power and spread the tentacles of the nanny state, so he needs the people of Wisconsin to turn their faith back to the big government liberals who they rejected and forced out of office last November.

But the people in Wisconsin and the rest of America aren’t just looking to win the next election. We’re now waking up to the political reality where Big Government and Big Labor have replaced OUR voice in the political process.

For over half a century, Big Labor has been shielding their unfair wages and shady practices by controlling the politicians in Washington, and now we can’t pay our bills.

Taxpayers are struggling to pay their rent, to send our children to good schools, or to simply put gas in our cars. Yet government workers are demanding even more money and benefits from taxpayers.

Government programs have grown to gigantic proportions and unions are demanding even larger entitlement programs to feed the bureaucracy. It’s like a snake eating its own tail. It’s the American taxpayer who suffers for labor’s grandiose schemes and compensation packages. When the taxpayers try to breathe, the unions constrict tighter by threatening to walk-out of their jobs, stop contributing funds to their closest politicians, or as in Wisconsin, try to reverse a legitimate election because they don’t like the results.

Civil servant union representatives claim they’re only keeping up with compensation levels in the private sector but that is simply not true. Government workers feel no economic pain. They are an unelected protected class who will take over the government when they don’t like what the voters have decided.

Here’s the proof! The average private hourly wage is $19.66 while the average state and local government wage is $26.25. Private workers pay 20 percent of their medical premiums while state and local government workers pay only 11 percent. 74 percent of private workers have paid sick leave compared with 98 percent of government workers. Even though we’re in hard times, government payrolls are higher today than they were at the beginning of the recession.

You know that if these numbers were reversed, the unions would be in the streets demanding equal compensation! Yet they’re holding picket signs demanding better pay than those who are paying the bill. Worse, they’re promising to take over the government if they don’t receive it.

We’re at a tipping point. We cannot sustain the gargantuan government that we’ve created that controls every aspect of our lives. We must restore the freedom and economic prosperity for everyone instead of the privileged government class. We must restore the free market that has distributed and lifted incomes of everyone far more than any government program has ever accomplished in the history of civilization.

But the free market is a threat to unions and Leftist politicians who survive by tearing down the institutions that have made this country great. When people are dependent on government programs, they’re really dependent on the people who create them. And if we want to restore integrity to the system, their fangs come out.

In November, the change we need started. We elected some good men and women into Congress who understand that our Constitution was created to foster individual freedom and to help our nation prosper. I’ve asked a few of my good friends in Washington what I can personally do for them to help them to restore freedom. Over and over they tell me that we must re-educate Americans about what made our country great and prosperous.

Now is the time for CURE to reach farther than ever before. I’ve learned how to use the power of the media to spread ideas.

Conservatives are few in the media – so we can’t simply hand it over to the Left as a lost cause! If we don’t get the media engine running the true facts about freedom and prosperity our good men in women in Washington will never be able to stop the enormous government machine that is tearing our nation apart.

Will you help me get this media engine running right?

Stephen, you know that I’m not afraid to use bold language when our Democracy is under attack. On Tuesday I was on Neil Cavuto’s national television show explaining how the union protesters in Wisconsin should all be fired if they don’t return to work. And people emailed me and agreed!

Let’s fight the entitlement mentality and fight the government unions. If you agree that we should not back-down from the unions, please contribute $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 or even $1,000 right now to CURE. Together, we can restore the principles of the free-market and personal responsibility even in liberal strongholds and save the future of America.

Your foot soldier for freedom,

 
Prime Minister – Australia

‘If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’

The economic harms of carbon cap-and-trade policies are so well established that even a state as reliably leftist as California has never been able to pass a plan through their legislature. Instead, environmentalists in the Golden State have relied on the California Air Resources Board (CARB), whose appointed governing board is democratically unaccountable, to develop and impose carbon regulations by bureaucratic fiat. And this past December, much to the delight of many environmentalists, CARB passed the first carbon cap-and-trade scheme in the United States. Everything looked ready to go … until a San Francisco Superior Court judge issued a ruling, just made public last week, that, if made final, would stop CARB from implementing its plan. The plaintiffs in the suit? The Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment.

So why is a group called the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment suing to stop carbon cap and trade? The New York Times reports: “Poor communities, particularly in Southern California, have been leery of market-based systems of pollution control, believing that industries nearby would be able to pay for extra pollution allowances and continue to send dangerous chemicals into their neighborhoods.” And what is this “dangerous” pollutant the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment says will be pumped into their neighborhoods? Carbon dioxide. The same chemical compound that you and I are exhaling right now.

The Times goes on to report that “no one maintains that carbon dioxide is a hazardous pollutant dangerous to local communities.” Oh, but they have. The Obama Administration’s own Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant that poses a “danger to public health and welfare.” As a result EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is moving ahead with plans to regulate carbon as a “pollutant” under authority granted her by the Clean Air Act.

Of course, the Clean Air Act was never meant to give the EPA the power to regulate a substance as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide. This quickly becomes obvious when looking at the levels of “pollution” that the Clean Air Act would mandate the EPA to regulate. When it was passed, the Clean Air Act mandated that the EPA must regulate sources of real pollutants (like acrylic acid, chlorine, and benzene) that emitted 100 or 250 tons or more of a pollutant per year. Only truly industrial-sized outfits came under these regulations. But carbon dioxide is much more common. The 100-ton limit will ensnare schools, farms, restaurants, hospitals, apartment complexes, churches, and anything with a motor—from motor vehicles to lawnmowers, jet skis, and leaf blowers. If you own any of these items or eat, sleep, learn, or pray in any of these establishments, you are about to become very familiar with EPA regulators.

The Obama EPA believes they can unilaterally rewrite the Clean Air Act’s pollution thresholds to minimize the economic pain their rules will create. This is the same Obama Administration that thinks Obamacare is constitutional. The Obama EPA will get sued over their carbon regulations, and they will lose. But that does not mean that Congress should sit idly by while the Obama EPA wreaks havoc on our tentatively recovering economy. They have authority under the Congressional Review Act to stop Lisa Jackson in her tracks.

California will undoubtedly find a way around the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment lawsuit against cap and trade. CARB’s job-killing regulations will eventually go into effect, shooting California’s already above-the-national-average unemployment even higher. But it is not too late for the rest of the nation. The Obama EPA can be stopped.