Medicare rationing has begun

In an action that, strangely, did not make even the watchdogs of medical quality flinch, if there are any left, the "Readmission Measures Project Team", a new branch of the (Federal)Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the CMS, promulgated a policy that is certain to ration care to the elderly in Medicare, and presumably the poor in Medicaid.

In an unbelievable directive, the CMS blithely declared, upon what authority, who knows, that ANY re-admission to a hospital within 30 days of a discharge will not be reimbursed...at all! This holds true, NO MATTER what the cause of re-admission.

Assume you are on Medicare, and just got discharged after a bout of pneumonia. On the way home, you are hit by a runaway bus, and are taken back to the hospital, where you are operated on for a broken femur, a collapsed lung, and spend 2 days in Intensive Care. The hospital will recieve for the care exactly NOTHING.

If you are unable to see how many ways this insane directive rations and negatively affects the quality of healthcare, you can probably qualify as a passenger screener at Schipol Airport. What is so cute about the directive is the fact that your Government is not RATIONING health care, they are forcing the medical facilities to do it for them in order to survive!

This is just the another salvo in the attack on the entire Medical Profession under the oh-so concerned-about-the-QUALITY-of-health-care-Socialists.There will be many more if the Government can further and further insinuateitself into the fabric of Amarican Medicine.

Pray for the Republic
Suggested Reading for today: "Liberal Fascism", by Goldberg

Happy New Year, Avagadro602

Obama's Interpol Deceit:

On 17 December, BO silently altered Executive Order 12425 to give Interpol carte-blanche immunity over the US Constitution in matters of international law, overriding the US Constitution, the FBI, and any other US authority. Interpol Cops may show up at your home and you can disappear to The Hague or elsewhere with NO US authority being informed or having the power to stop them! All they need is a warrant..could be from Iran.

The alteration done by BO was to an Executive Order of President Reagan that DID NOT give the Interpol superiority over US law. Reagan did this in 1982 or 83.

What was BO thinking, to do this, silently, with no press in attendance? I suspect I know. If Interpol can come in unrestricted, how about UN"Peacekeeping"troops. Remember, Saul Alinsky, in "Rules for Radicals", suggested that crises were something to be used by the Marxist leftists. Bill Ayres and the Weather Underground realized many years ago that a Marxist takeover of the US would require the "loss" of several million hard-core capitalists. American Soldiers are not about to cooperate with totalitarian citizen control, but UN Troops, and Interpol???

Excuse me for thinking the worst of BO. but the guy has only shown the worst! He is out of Orwell's "1984", What he says is the OPPOSITE of the truth. We must work to elect conservative patriotic legislators. If we cannot do this, our Republic will become another dull gray country with a citizenry of slaves to the "managing class".

Please resolve to work for the Republic. Good talking points are on American Thinker.com . Time is running out. 2010 will be the bellwether for freedom versus socialist slavery...be afraid, be very afraid.

Pray for the Republic
Avagadro602

Victory or Death! The Greatness of Newt!

Newt has a great way of looking at history. Please click on the link to check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtjfMjjce2Y

End of the year Rant

It is already December 28, 2009 and we are wondering: What happened to our country in the last year? We have seen capitalism questioned by the socialist left. We have seen our nation sold off to power hungry politicians.

I for one don't want to see this continue to happen in 2010. We the people must examine where we are today as a country and stand up for American values. I'm writing about the type of values that would make your grandparents happy. I'm not talking values of the current Baby-boomers. Why? Because they are leading us to ruin.

We are in a time where the nation is fixated on Reality TV and wondering what the fools that are at the center of the show are going to do next. Why? Are We the People too lazy to look for ourselves and see that while we sit fixated on the train wreck on our TV's, our power greedy politicians are stealing the rest of our county. Furthermore; When a daytime talk show host's endorsement, lets call her Oprah, can help swing a vote: this nation has problems. I say we are sheep being led to slaughter by the leftist media.

In 2010 We the People need to wake up. The few of us that get it, need to help in the process by influencing the confused. We need to make sure that the power-hungry politicians know that they will be up for re-election and we have great memories. They need to know that they will be in the unemployment line for selling out our country in exchange for their personal gain.

I'm attaching a link to a Climate Neutral Scientist' lecture on Climate Change. It is worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=FOLkze-9GcI&pop_ads=0#t=83

Shady Nebraska gift may be unwrapped!

Attorney Generals from a few of the non-bribe taking states are lining up to oppose the Ben Nelson (Nebraska Deal). Hey Ben, Sell out your state by selling your vote, taking a short-term gain without doing your homework first. See where that gets you? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34551523/ns/politics-health_care_reform

It's time America flushed! Clean out Congress and the Senate!


JW

Season of Forgiveness and Hope

Seeds of Freedom Patriots wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy Channuka, and a happy and prosperous New Year. The meaning of Christmas is, after all,the beginning of a New Covenant with us, and that is one of forgiveness, not hate, not retribution, but one of love. Let us take a deep breath, relax, and open our hearts, focus on it and feel it! Do not harbor bitterness, forgive our enemies of freedom personally, but resolve to thwart and to reverse thier misguided actions with every fibre of your being. Pray for our leaders and our Republic.

Would Ben Nelson be more like Judas or Roxanne?

I imagine driving past Ben Nelson's Nebraska home with it being decorated in Christmas lights. RED Christmas lights. Don't worry Ben. We know you have already "Put on the Red Light". Thanks for SCREWING our country and your constituents. I may donate money to campaign against you. I hope the rest of your statesmen have a good enough memory to send you to the unemployment line with the rest of your Democratic and yes, Republican ilk. WE ARE NOT SOCIALIST IN THIS COUNTRY.

Here's a link to the Omaha World Herald where they tell us good ol'e Ben is getting an earful. In the spirit of Christ this holiday season, he also reminds me of another Biblical figure. Enjoy your silver Judas. http://www.omaha.com/article/20091221/NEWS01/712219890

Don't Cry for me, America

With the Harry Reid proclaiming that the Senate has the required 60 votes to pass their Socialized Medicine Healthcare Bill they are proclaiming victory.


Here's a link to an article on a blog that has a brief history about the economic decline of Argentina. It has a lot of great pictures.

Can you name any good exports from Argentina besides Steak Houses?

Don't Cry for me, America!

Seeds of Freedom

Seeds of Freedom

The Original Couple that Sneeked into Whitehouse without Credentials!

Bart Gordon Announces Retirement!

Hasta la Vista! We now have even a better chance of getting a conservative representative. Check out the link from The Tennessean. http://www.tennessean.com/article/D4/20091214/NEWS01/91214015/UPDATE++Gordon+reaction++Tracy+makes+it+official

Instead of talking about it; let's do something about it...

Here's a proposal letter from our chairman to a group of retired or semi-retired concerned citizens.  As I understand it; they are red hot mad. This group, "The Silver Eagles" can make a difference in our political outlook today!  The plan of action is simple:  Do something!  Read the letter; you will get the idea.

JW

From: Dr. William Dutton, Chairman, Seeds of Freedom activists

I was thrilled to see your passion hating the socialist’s systematic march to destroy our children and grandchildren’s future in favor of an Orwellian Fascist-Socialist state. I was doubly thrilled to hear that much of your SS class had similar feelings. The Socialist-Democrats…Pelosi, Reid, with the help of Tennessee’s feckless Democrat Representatives, have thrown the “old folks” under the bus. Medicare is to be un-funded, and much altered, about a Trillion dollars over 10 years.

I want to start a “Silver Eagles” activist club as part of my “Seeds of Freedom” group. You and other like minded folks can be very instrumental in ridding the state of the further and further leftist Congressmen* , and if needs be, Senators. You can make phone calls, get out the vote, register voters, and take folks to the polls! Oldsters are going to be very negatively affected by the new Bill if it passes, and we are being IGNORED!

We will at some time, have a calling list to contact, and if each of us calls just a few folks each, we can affect the 2010, and 2012 elections. This USA may not be able to survive much more Obama-Reid-Pelosi Liberal Fascism.

Please get a team together, gird your loins (whatever that means), and lets come out swinging….lots better than sitting on our hands and complaining. Be a Patriot, we’ve got to be the “Greatest Generation” again. This Republic is under attack! There will be little left for our Grandchildren and Great-Grands.

Contact me at growfreedom@gmail.com to get on board. Also, look into our” Seeds of Freedom” website. USE THE TOP BAR. Go to freedom912.blogspot.com. The site will give you plenty of reason to become an activist (Silver Eagle).

Dr. William Dutton,
Chairman
Dec. 2009

* Bart Gordon, Jim Cooper, Lincoln Davis (we didn’t leave the Democrats, they left us!!)

Special Thanks to Gary Henrich...

Please note the Seeds of Freedom logo to the right. It was created by Gary Henrich. It looks great!

A Little Current Event Humor

New Obama Joke: Can you believe this is getting more attention than his foreign policy?

This was from a TCOT web site.

Remember Pearl Harbor

Today you may remember is the Anniversary of the attack that happened back in 1941. It pulled our country into WWII. One has to ask yourself, what's the difference between the attitude of the country then and now? Is it that we had the determination to do whatever it took to beat back attacking forces? Have we lost the will to do what it takes? Do we have forces within trying to weaken us?

Keep this in mind as our Navy Seals are being court marshaled today for the alleged rough treatment of a terrorist.

Here's another email I received that I have not fact checked. However, it looks like it has merit:

ON "ABC-TV"
Monday October 12, 2009

DURING THE "NETWORK SPECIAL ON HEALTH CARE".... PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS ASKED:
"MR PRESIDENT WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIVE UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM
AND JOIN THE NEW 'UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM' THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON ????"

THERE WAS A STONEY SILENCE AS OBAMA IGNORED THE QUESTION AND CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER IT !!! IN ADDITION, A NUMBER OF SENATORS WERE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION AND THEIR RESPONSE WAS."WE WILL THINK ABOUT IT." AND THEY DID. IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT THE "KENNEDY HEALTH CARE BILL" WAS WRITTEN INTO THE NEW HEALTH CARE REFORM INITIATIVE ENSURING THAT THAT CONGRESS WILL BE 100% EXEMPT !

Best,

JW

Moochers to the left of me...

We the people firmly have the moochers in power. It is all about power and not representation. Power and world-wide wealth redistribution.

This weeks latest debacle seems to be centered around failed economic recovery policy of the current administration. It appears that the current administration is forced to admit that the government can't create jobs in the private sector. They discover this only after they tripled our national debt. When we have the Chinese Communist telling us how to be capitalist; Houston, we have a problem!

Naturally there should be a push away from any idea this administration/political party presents. Fortunately, there is a beam of hope on the horizon. Some of the world is awakening to what we conservatives have know all along. MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS B.S. That's right it is all Bravo Sierra. It is a farce. The only thing positive about it is that we know who the weak minded and easily influential people are. At the top echelons, there is less clarity in understanding between the weak and the just plain thieving power hungry.

Here's an article on what looks like people waking up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/science/earth/07climate.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes .

Here's a piece worth watching from The Washington Independant on Trialing our terrorist on the US soil: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/embarrass-the-white-race-thats-what-this-administration-does.html

Has anyone noticed the price of gas lately? No, not the mass media. Why, because they don't have a President that can be blamed for it. Now, what can we do? Make sure that there is a solid conservative running for re-election.

Finally, here's a couple of links to help in forgetting politics:

BCS final results: http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=BCS

Click this for: a great editorial from Bob Schieffer at CBS News

Thanks for reading,

JW

Cloward and Piven Committed Socialists...Does this ring familiar?

Cloward and Piven were Columbia University Sociologists, committed Socialists.

A strategy to hasten* the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands for welfare and services. This in all done through Community Activists and organizers, many of whom are paid with your tax dollars.

Published in 1966 in the May issue of The Nation. Article entitled “A Strategy to End Poverty”.

Socialism is the goal.

ACORN, SEIU, NWRO(National Welfare Rights Organization), George Soros’ open society Institute, Democrat extention of unemployment, are but a few initiatives dedicated to this strategy. Do you see how close this is to Obama?

The (in)famous Saul Alinsky, writer of “Rules for Radicals” was a devotee of the Cloward and Piven strategy.

The above is great talking point material when discussing the politics of BO. The typically fact-clueless liberal will have to resort to blathering about classical music or fine art!

Be aggressive, in the name of Freedom!!

Note please, This is not a “conspiracy” issue, this is very real, and is actively being worked by the committed Socialist element of the Left. Your Democrat Rep may not even know that he or she is being a “useful idiot” in a march to Marx. It’s our job to educate them!

*hasten, presumably used since progressives presume socialism is inevitable..it woked so well in E.Germany, Cuba, and Russia.

Bill, Nov 09

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy

Back from the Thanksgiving Holiday

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and remembered what it is all about: FOOTBALL! Ok, food too but most of all being thankful for what we have.

I have a couple of interesting stories that I have read about in the news.


NAVY SEALS

First of all you may remember the Black Water employees that were killed and dragged through the streets of Fallujah in 2004. Well our Nation's best warriors caught up with the Muslim Terrorist behind the attack. Evidently when he was caught by the SEALS he ended up with a fat lip. Our over-sensitive bureaucracy is now trying to court marshal the three SEALS that caught him. Someone had better come to their senses on this one! Here's a link to support the SEALS who captured Ahmed Hashim Abed by joining their Facebook page - http://tinyurl.com/yfuc26q.


Climate Gate

When an Uber-lib like George Stephanopoulos brings up how the President is about to make a trip to Copenhagen to support a totally unproven "Junk Science" like climate change during the weekly round table on "This Week" we can only hope the country is starting to wake up. You can also imagine Al Gore's head is spinning. Of course the liberal hacks have found nothing in the emails in question. Why? It's not about the climate, it's about the redistribution of wealth.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/29/week-discusses-climategate-obamas-copenhagen-trip

Tiger Woods

We can only hope Tiger walks away unscathed by the media on this one. He is great for golf and I believe he does a lot for charity. In a related story his wife may be picking up a golf club sponsor. I can already see her on the commercial swinging the 7 iron breaking out the back window of Tiger's Escalade.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/tigerwoods/6686509/Tiger-Woods-says-Im-only-human-after-mystery-crash.html

We are still looking for editors and topics.

Until next time!

JW

Seeds of Freedom, a few notes from today's meeting at Nero's in Green Hills:

James Baird spoke on the "Fair Tax" proposal also known as HR-25.
- The ability for the government to tax us was created by the 16th amendment back in 1913.
- Taxes were collected once a year.
- Congress figured out that it was easier to collect them on payday instead of once a year.
- The initial tax rate was 2%.
- Our current tax code has 70,000 + pages.
- The Fair Tax concept was originated around 1995.
- Currently Georgia State representative John Linder has been the biggest voice behind the Fair Tax.
- The Fair Tax has 50 C0-Sponsors in congress.
- Passing of the Fair Tax would repeal the 16th amendment.
- The estimated Fair Tax rate is somewhere between 23 and 30 %.
- The Fair Tax does not argue to control spending.

Commentary from the editor:
I've read the Fair Tax book and think it is a great way to have everyone pay their "Fair Share" of taxes. It is consumption based. It will take the power from the politicians and give it back to the people. The concept is simple: You pay taxes based on your purchases and no longer pay a federal income tax.


Please check out the following links:

http://www.fairtax.org

http://www.amazon.com/FairTax-Book-Neal-Boortz/dp/0060875410

Duane Dominy is running for State House District 59. Duane spoke to us briefly on his campaign. He stands for fiscal conservatism. He is also currently the City Councilman for District 28 in Nashville. Please check out his web site:

http://www.duaneadominy.com/

There was also a brief introduction to the Cloward and Piven Strategy from Dr Dutton. It introduced the strategy to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands for welfare and services. This deserves a post on it's own merit. We will get to that later.

Last but not least, thanks to Nero's Grill in Green Hills for the use of the back room. Also, excellent food and service from A.J. http://www.nerosgrill.com/

Another good email today evidently it originated with Glenn Beck.

GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:


"I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me.

Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me.

The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent.

There must be someone. Please tell me who you are.

Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written.

Please stand up now.
You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties.

What kind of nut-job am I?

Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which I seekrepresentation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels.

Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people.

No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S.,

I'm not a racist. This is not to be confused with legal immigration.


Two, the STIMULUS bill. I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you No, but you did it anyway.

I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.


Three: Czars. I want the circumvention of our constitutional checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars.

Government officials answer to the process, not to the president.

Stop trampling on our Constitution, and honor it.


Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over.

There are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon for this radical legislation. Quit throwing our nation into politically-correct quicksand.


Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision that will burden me, my children, and grandchildren.

Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night without even reading it.

Slow down! Fix only what is broken --

we have the best health care system in the world -- and test any new program in one or two states first.


Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more.

More is not better! Shrink it down. Mind your own business.

You have enough to take care of with your real [Constitutional] obligations. Why don't you start there.


Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated.

I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes -- how did they pull that one off?

Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with any of our taxpayer money.

Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies.

You work for us, the people. Investigate.


Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money.

It is mine.

I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs -- and that is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person!

Why do you want me to hate my employers?

And what do you have against shareholders making a profit?


Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need.

Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please.

We want to do it ourselves.


Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Every company must sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful.

(Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid?)

We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate.

We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.


Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it?

No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk.

Please stop trying to manipulate and appease me with clever wording.

I am not the idiot you obviously take me for.

Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation.

Stop hiding things from me.


Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.
Take a breath. Listen to the people. Slow down and get some input from nonpoliticians and experts on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed-reading our bills into law.

I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent.

I work. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired.

I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.


I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution.

I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened?

You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not.
It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you.

It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance.

Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children.

We did not want the TARP bill. We said no.

We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot.

There is needless urgency and recklessness in all of your recent spending of our tax dollars.


From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane.

I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings.

Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans?

We want it to stop.

We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back.

You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington .

Our president often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable.

Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words.

Stop treating us like we're morons.


We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done.

You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented..

You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you?

We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone... and we are now looking at you.
You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far.

Our numbers are great. They may surprise you.

For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office.
We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved.

We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off.

We do not come in violence, but we are angry.

You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will.

There are candidates among us who will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.


Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this.

We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution, and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more.

It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back.

We entrusted you with it and you abused it.

You are dishonorable. You are dishonest.

As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us.

If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired.

Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties.

You need to be loyal to us, not to them..

Because we will get you fired and they will not save you.

If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up.

Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you?

Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen.

Because we are coming.

We the people are coming."

A License Required for your House

I received this via email. I wanted to share it via the blog to further the point... Our representatives are loosing touch with America.

A LICENSE REQUIRED FOR YOUR HOUSE

Thinking about selling your house" A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and Trade bill) This is unbelievable!

Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the ”Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced. The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded. However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.

But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is this: A year from now you won't be able to sell your house. Yes, you read that right. The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included. In essence, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.

To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured. Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements. Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner. If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act. The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements are set low initially so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much tougher new standards every year.

The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings. However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time. Sect. 202 Building Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increase the energy efficiency of all existing homes across America.

Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. You had better sell soon, because the standards will be raised each year and will be really hard (i.e., ex$pen$ive) to meet in a few years. Oh, goody! The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousand dollars to comply with the retrofit program requirements IF you meet certain energy efficiency levels. But, wait, the State can set additional requirements on who qualifies to receive the grants. You should expect requirements such as "can't have an income of more than $50K per year", "home selling price can’t be more than $125K", or anything else to target the upper middle class (and that's YOU) and prevent them from qualifying for the grants. Most of us won't get a dime and will have to pay the entire cost of the retrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more "change you can believe in."
Sect. 204 Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will identify the achieved energy efficiency performance for "at least 90 percent of the residential market within 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act."

This means that within 5 years 90% of all residential homes in the U.S. must be measured and labeled. The EPA administrator will get $50M each year to enforce the labeling program. The Secretary of the Department of Energy will get an additional $20M each year to help enforce the labeling program. Some of this money will, of course, be spent on coming up with tougher standards each year.

Oh, the label will be like a license for your car. You will be required to post the label in a conspicuous location in your home and will not be allowed to sell your home without having this label. And, just like your car license, you will probably be required to get a new label every so often - maybe every year. But, the government estimates the cost of measuring the energy efficiency of your home should only cost about $200 each time. Remember what they said about the auto smog inspections when they first started: that in California it would only cost $15. That was when the program started. Now the cost is about $50 for the inspection and certificate; a 333% increase. Expect the same from the home labeling program. Sect. 304 Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes establishes new energy efficiency guidelines for the National Building Code and mandates at 304(d) that 1 year after enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must adopt the National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain a certification from the federal government that their state and/or local codes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building Code energy efficiency standards.

(http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2454)

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