Our
founders thought of everything. The First Amendment,
“Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion...” keeps self-serving
politicians from abusing the power of the federal
government and promoting a preferred religion with
which to advance an agenda. Unfortunately, today the
Constitution is easily ignored and environmentalism
has become America’s sponsored religion. This was
not an accident.
Since the early 1900s, our nation has been engaged
in an ideological battle between free market
capitalism and Marxism. Advocates for the latter
have found a comfortable home in today’s clean and
green movement, because both Marxism and
environmentalism control the citizenry through
suffocating bureaucracy. Recent history reveals the
steps. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed around
the ankles of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Communism
simply could not compete with free market
capitalism, so he found an easier way. Within two
years Mr. Gorbachev resurfaced as a world leader in
the environmental movement when he formed Green
Cross International—one of the organizations behind
today’s United Nation’s Agenda 21. Any economic
activity which strengthens free market capitalism
relative to Marxism, environmentalists deem as
polluting and it is regulated into submission. Two
recent examples are President Obama blocking all new
uranium claims on lands surrounding the Grand Canyon
and postponing a decision on the Keystone XL oil
pipeline. The president uses the universal excuse of
concern for the environment to hide his true
motives, so let’s take a look behind the scenes.
Wealth comes from the land—God put it there. Be it
agriculture, mining, timber, coal, oil or gas, all
dollars generated harvesting, mining or refining
these resources expand our wealth. (Even wind
generated electricity could be considered true
wealth were it economically self-supporting. It is
not. Wind doesn’t rotate the turbine blades,
subsidies do.) A rapidly expanding new wealth
economy provides freedom. For example, Montanans
pocketing 70K a year driving truck in the oil fields
have no need for government programs like TANF, SNAP
or SCHIP. Self-sufficient citizens refuse to kneel
and lick the hand of the ruling elite who feed them,
so a massive, nine billion dollar per year, federal
agency has been created to decrease freedom and
promote dependency. It is called the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and it functions as the
church of our national religion.
Under the auspices of the Clean Air Act and Clean
Water Act, the EPA is planning to crush free market
capitalism by regulating everything from farm dust
to gasoline to carbon emissions from coal fired
power plants. This will destroy states like Montana
which have vast natural resources, plus drive the
price of food and fuel beyond the checkbook of the
common man. Ten dollar per gallon gasoline will make
even the most patriotic American beg for relief
through government aid programs. Although the EPA is
the biggest government church promoting
environmentalism, other agencies are coming to their
aid.
Another storm of secret e-mails released in
November, show our very own US Department of Energy
was complicit in suppressing data contradictory to
the preferred conclusion of man caused climate
change. This is a Mount Rushmore of frauds. When
members of academia abandon scientific principles
and prostitute themselves to publish data supporting
pre-conceived conclusions they have reduced their
credibility to the mystic level of a cloud
whisperer. All colleges, universities, and
scientists who conduct research using government
grants are contaminated and should be called into
question.
The EPA must be defunded and the states must nullify
its rulings as being an unconstitutional usurpation
of federal power…or we kneel and lick the hand which
feeds us. It’s your choice. As for me, I’m not much
for crawling.
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