Posted by
Jay Noble on Monday, December 07, 2009 4:55:41 PM
The United States Environmental Protection Agency today declared carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. Effectively, this Federal government agency has declared a natural recurring gas which is omitted by every living human being a danger to public health. A more insane declaration by a government entity is impossible to imagine.
This is a second Pearl Harbor, an act of war by the Federal government against the American people. The government has declared that exhaling is tantamount to polluting, which makes you and I dangerous polluters! This asinine finding opens the door to the regulation of virtually every aspect of economic life in the country. For that matter, it opens the board to taxing every human being for the act of living, as all of us can be declared in violation of the Clean Air Act and subject to fine or tax for our carbon dioxide footprint.
This is an upraised middle finger from the Obama EPA to the American people and the Congress for their unwillingness to pass the disastrous cap and trade legislation languishing in the Senate. Obama is seizing the power via regulation to control vast areas of life heretofore off limits to the reach of the Federal government without regard to checks and balances of the democratic process.
As the EPA implements today's decision the damage to the nation's economy and liberty will be calamitous. I really think that serious civil unrest is in our near future. We may be in the process of becoming a nation of sheep, but there are still some rams left in the country who will not sit still while this colossal idiot we have as president destroys the country.