According to the report, “The charge from President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith- Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is, in part, to focus on how those partnerships can benefit persons and families who often experience barriers to full participation in the Nation’s abundance.”

They have created nine recommendations to involve the “disadvantaged” in community, faith based initiatives.

The first three recommendations are intended to promote energy efficiency and create green jobs.  They think we should expand the EPA by adding employee representatives from the Council at the EPA and their regional offices.  The next two recommendations are to start an environmental education campaign including utilizing Environment.gov to push this campaign.  The sixth recommendation is about supporting sustainable community gardening and small-scale farming.  The last three recommend implementing a task force to help with climate change adaptation.

President Obama has proven he will use any avenue he can to persuade Americans that Global Warming is, in fact, real.  With recommendations from a faith-based council President Obama thinks he can sway moderate Republicans via “Global Warming” education, green jobs, and more government spending, or in other words, propaganda.

This will not work.  We cannot let them spend more money on this baseless, politicized issue that NO ONE on the left is willing to vet.  Countless times Congress and the President have proven that to them, ignorance truly is bliss.  Never mind selling out our children’s financial future.  Never mind destroying US manufacturing.  Never mind tax oppression to pay for the obscene cost of government.  Never mind the Constitution.  Using religious leaders won’t sway the American people because we’ve been through this one too many times during Obama’s Presidency.

We know God obligated us to be stewards of this great planet of ours.  It is not going to cost us billions of dollars and our future to fulfill this obligation.  All it is going to require is us stopping this trillion dollar mistake and pay no attention to the smokescreens the Left is throwing our way and let the real conservationists meet that obligation.

Download the full report here.  This section starts on page 53.

The entire purpose of C&T is to put a cap on CO2 emissions. “Presently, 40 percent of CO2 emissions in the United States are derived from electricity generation, 35 percent from transportation, and 25 percent from business, industry, and natural gas to heat homes.”

The current goal in the Senate bill which came from the House bill is to reduce emissions by 17%.  So where will this 17% come from?  I wrote last week about the emissions exchange in Chicago and they’ve even said this will be a $10 trillion market.  This sets up Richard Sandor (patent holder of the exchange), Al Gore, Goldman-Sachs and others to make billions of dollars.

On top of that Government Officials have increased their estimate of tax revenue from C&T to be between $1.3 and $1.4 trillion.  So the obscene politicians that are pushing this are going to first make a ton of cash for their own pockets, but then take all our money for their federal coffers.

The Wallstreet Journal reported that “excess revenues from any cap and trade bill that passes Congress will be used to compensate vulnerable families, communities and businesses.”

Hints of redistribution of wealth?  Actually, it’s pretty explicit if you ask me.  Take our money, make themselves rich, then give whatever is left to “compensate” the “vulnerable” or, redistribute our money to those who haven’t earned it.  This may include the three years of 70% unemployment that unemployed get when a job is lost to overseas manufacturing.  After they redistribute wealth here in the US, the world is their next target.

By reducing Co2 emissions by 17% they will also be simultaneously reducing the number of manufacturing jobs available in the US.  By forcing these jobs overseas they will also be redistributing wealth to the rest of world by giving those jobs to others that belong to the American people.

Inevitably inflation will hit.  It is unavoidable.  Energy prices WILL go up, goods and services will be more expensive, unemployment will increase from even more manufacturing going overseas and more and more people will have no health insurance because we’re paying for a terrible healthcare bill that doesn’t even start for 4 years.

Why are we the lucky ones to be oppressed by the left?  Because of some junk science that claims falsehoods and fabricated lies so those liars will be able to steal our money.

It really is that simple.  Right now President Obama and Senate Democrats plan to fix the environment via cap and trade (C&T).  Well, C&T is not nearly as “honorable” as the left makes it out to be.

The economic crises we are now experiencing is largely due to the irresponsible use of mortgage-backed securities.  These securities were in fact highly regulated and we know how well the hokey pokey between Wall Street and Washington worked out.

Well now we move on to Carbon, or frankly, ANY emission’s exchange.  There is a Chicago based company called the Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc.  This company was originally funded by seed capital from the city’s Joyce Foundation where President Obama was a board member of at the time of its funding.  Now, the Chicago Climate Exchange is trading about $10 billion a month worldwide according to an interview by its founder (and patent holder) Richard Sandor.  Former Chief of Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulsen was also key in the founding of this company and exchange.

Rewind two years from the time their patent was approved and our very own Fannie Mae received approval for their patent of a residential emission exchange.  Which, by the way, was approved the same day the political right sealed their fate, November 7^th, 2006.

Richard Sandor claims this exchange will be global and will become a $10 trillion market.  So the question is what cunning schemes Washington and other global leaders devise to create a market that will have artificial value?  In an interview with Bloomberg Sandor said that there is no risk of the emissions market ever crashing because it’s “regulated” and not open like mortgage-backed securities.  Mortgage-backed securities WERE highly regulated.  So you likely understand my concern with the SEC regulating an industry that according to Sandor doesn’t have the “opaque” value mortgage-backed securities had when that same agency doesn’t have a stellar record when it comes to securities trading.

Furthemore, Goldman Sachs, a favorite of President Obama and many other Democrats in Congress, just happens to own 19% of the parent company of this Chicago based emissions exchange company called Climate Exchange Plc.

Barbara Hollingsworth described it best saying,

“But passage of the legislation would create an artificial, government-mandated, trillion-dollar carbon trading market that would drive up the price of energy, indirectly making housing more expensive.

“If the proprietary emissions trading system functions like other exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange, which makes most of its revenue on listing and trading fees, its owners could see extremely generous profits, especially with a patent that keeps out competition for two decades.”

Not to scream conspiracy or anything but here are our concerns.

What special interests are behind the actual language and writing of current energy policies and C&T that will be debated?  After seeing the corruption and special interest slant behind the stimulus package, healthcare bill and current financial reform bill Obama wants to debate, we’re curious to see what other sweetheart deals Fannie Mae is going to walk away with.  Will there be some sort of residential carbon tax?  Will C&T just be another Ponzi scheme created to give special interests more power?

They are essentially creating an enormous emissions exchange that will make all involved rich, really quick.  That is Chicago politics at its best.  Create a law that will make special interests even more money.  We saw the housing bubble burst; imagine a $10 trillion market crash and its impact on the world.  Based on the distrust that the actions of those in Congress have built with the American people I can only imagine how long it would take for this Ponzi scheme to meltdown.  After all, an artificial market with artificial value could only last so long.

You can see Chicago Climate Exchange patent by clicking here.
You can see Fannie Mae’s patent by clicking here.

You can also watch Richard Sandor’s first Bloomberg interview by clicking here and his second Bloomberg interview by clicking here.

As Dave has said for years, find the money and you’ll find the motive.

Straight from the SCI website:“Every member of SCI is a conservationist on many levels. From their membership dollars that go to support the SCI Foundation’s global activities, to their local chapter projects, to their support of federal and local game and fish agencies through purchase of licenses and sporting equipment, members of SCI are conservationists of the best kind.”

While I am motivated by the concept behind the new land bill let me tell you why I’m discouraged.  To handle this initiative the President has identified the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Chair of the Council of Environmental Quality.  You tell me where conservation fits into any of these organizations.  It doesn’t.  These are a bunch of radical environmentalists that are driving for devastating legislation like cap and trade.  These are individuals who will put their radical agendas above all, not in the name of the environment, but in the name of power.

President Obama, if you really cared about the environment, conservation and preserving our National parks, put the REAL conservationists in charge, they would be Americas hunters, Ranchers and Farmers, we were “green” before “green” was cool.  Not the environmental tree-huggers.  Keep the contaminates out of conservation!

Sec. Vilsack is selling this terrible legislation by pointing out the money farmers can make from planting trees which is considered a “carbon offset.”  Therefore, during a recession those in Washington would rather re-forest our land, which Vilsack said would provide “significant income opportunities to America’s farmers and ranchers.”  This is absurd.  When did even the most basic rules about supply and demand leave Washington?  Or did Washington kick these rules out themselves?

The USDA released a report stating that subsidizing farmers to plant trees would result in decreased livestock production and it would bump up commodity prices.  (More government interference in our economy again!) It is as simple as this.  Cap and trade is bad for America and it is bad for the world!  As farmers find more value in planting taxpayer subsidized trees as opposed to actually producing anything, supply will decrease.  Without a proportional decrease in demand, we will inevitably see even more inflation in food prices.  Thus far America as a whole hasn’t significantly noticed already inflated food prices.  If they pass cap and trade not only will this result in increased energy costs for businesses and the people, but will result in even greater economic strain as Americans can’t afford their utilities and their food.

Why is it that Congressman Boswell and the 111th Congress are so focused on passing legislation that is economically devastating?  There is nothing good to come from this bill.  They are basing this on junk science and they refuse to even vet the science to ensure us it is in fact without manipulation and error.  Instead, they would rather politicize climate change to redistribute wealth globally rather than focusing on job creation and boosting our economy.  This bill will increase unemployment, hinder small businesses that are in a position to expand and it will tax the middle-class who will see the greatest cost burden as businesses pass the tax in the prices of their goods and services.

We cannot stand for elected officials who have no grasp whatsoever on the economics of the legislation they are passing.  We cannot afford to allow them to vote for legislation that is bad for America.  We cannot force our grandchildren into financial slavery by increasing our debt to give climate change reparations to the world.

Bill Gates, along with Toshiba, are in the process of developing a small nuclear reactor that can run continuously for 100 years without any refueling.  Currently, Toshiba’s US based partner; Westinghouse, has already built a model that can run up to 30 years continuously.  The left propagates their unwavering desire for clean energy yet the refuse to sit down and really talk about fixing our energy problem.

Imagine a small nuclear reactor that any city or rural town could buy to significantly drop the cost of energy and help maintain a clean environment.  It will be here soon.  While small villages in Alaska are running on diesel generators that can cost close to $12 a gallon to fuel they could soon take advantage of technology we ALREADY have.  So much of Obama’s Presidential Campaign regarding clean energy was that technology is “right around the corner” that would enable us to be independent and clean.  Well, we actually have it now.  While Gates and Toshiba have yet to reach the 100 year mark on their small reactors, even using a generator that has a 30 year capacity without refueling is far better than anything wind energy will ever have to offer us – and we can put them anywhere.

It’s time to just ignore the left.  It’s time to ignore their misconceptions and irrational arguments against nuclear power and start to make choices that will actually benefit all Americans, rich and poor.  Boost job growth with lower energy costs.  Create permanent, high-tech jobs to build and manage these plants.  While it frustrates the left, the simple, common-sense answer truly can have an positive impact.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 4, 2010
Contact: Phil Kerpen or James Valvo (703) 224-3200

Americans for Prosperity Applauds U.S. House Candidate Dave Funk

-Signs No Climate Tax Pledge-

Washington, DC—The free market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today applauded Iowa U.S. House candidate Dave Funk (3^rd District) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” Funk joins more than 400 lawmakers and candidates on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”

“The one thing elected officials should be able to agree on is that global warming shouldn’t be used as an excuse to hike taxes on citizens and businesses,” said AFP Vice President for Policy Phil Kerpen.  “We encourage all of Iowa’s elected officials and candidates for elected office to sign the pledge.”

Cap-and-trade took its first step toward enactment last year when the U.S. House narrowly passed the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill, which escaped the lower chamber by a scant seven votes despite significant bipartisan opposition.  The Senate has struggled to pass companion legislation, with key Democratic senators openly expressing opposition to attempting to pass the energy tax bill.

President Obama has made no secret of his support for the bill, which would be the largest tax increase in American history.  The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has scored the House plan as an $846 billion increase in federal revenue, a burden that will be borne by taxpayers and consumers for decades to come.

“Using the guise of climate change to transfer dollars from hard-working citizens to bureaucratic big government is unacceptable,” said Kerpen. “Regardless of their stance on global warming, this should be common ground for all of our elected officials at all levels of government.”

The pledge is available online at www.NoClimateTax.com.  AFP does not endorse candidates.  All elected officials and candidates are encouraged to sign the pledge and go on the record in opposition to using the climate change issue to increase taxes and grow the size of government.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best way to safeguard individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFP has more than 975,000 members, including members in all 50 states, and 30 state chapters and affiliates. More than 60,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial investment in AFP or AFP Foundation. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org

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Dave Funk is grateful for the acknowledgment and is proud to be one of more than 400 elected officials and candidates that have signed this pledge.  Fighting these taxes is vital for Iowa’s economic success.

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This past weekend the American Thinker released another article expanding on the American climate change manipulation.  Democratic leadership in Washington and our current administration has overwhelmingly disregarded Climategate.  It’s been thought of as just a problem in the UK and that our data, which is the base of the global temperatures, is still accurate.  Well, it was only a matter of time before our big government got caught in the web of lies.

The Fraud

The data for temperature readings is gathered and published by two organizations/agencies funded by big government – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration & NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

NOAA has gone as far as to first remove 75% of temperature reading locations worldwide (from 6000 to 1500) leaving most in urban areas which naturally tend to be warmer.  Then they fill in the gaps created by these removals with data from the warmer urban areas.  This biased manipulation has accounted for one-half of the warming that has allegedly occurred.

GISS combines NOAA data with another source and then does a little more manipulation of their own.  They go through and make their own adjustments matching trends and mistaking decreases for increases.  Among many issues this has resulted in the highly mountainous country Bolivia to have had drastically high changes in temperature, even without an actual temperature reading in 20 years.

The Net Result

Aside from the fraud that has occurred on the taxpayers’ dime, even more frustrating, is that big government is committing this fraud and they think the American people are too stupid to realize it.  It is just like an animal.  When a mountain lion loses its natural fear of man it is time to put it down.  When big government politicians have lost their fear of the people that elected them, it’s time to vote them out.

The current administration has committed the US taxpayer to $100 billion a year in re-distributive wealth payments to the rest of the world in the name of manipulated science.  They have committed us to reparation payments to those we have not wronged.  They are willing to destroy our economy with cap and trade in the name of fabricated science.  With all this evidence against them, they have the audacity to hammer these policy changes through assuming you are too dumb to even notice.  How much more is our administration and congress willing to steal from your wallet in the name of this fabricated lie?  It’s about power and it’s about money.  As long as they have it, they will do whatever they want.

The Solution

Again, while I am just an ordinary citizen, I demand Congressional hearings investigating these organizations.  Investigate their use of taxpayer dollars to lie to the world and on their manipulation of this fraudulent data.  People must pay because we the taxpayers have paid enough.  I demand this data be fully investigated!  There are more than enough reputable and ethical scientists and meteorologists willing to testify and scrutinize this data.  Not holding hearings and investigating this in a public forum is cheating the American people of their rights and money. We cannot let big government win this one.  Global warming has cost us too much and will continue to hinder our economy from recovery.  Call your local Congressperson and demand action be taken.

Global warming never has been about environmental protectionism no matter how much the radical left would call me crazy for such a notion. Global warming has been and will continue to be about one thing…money. Aside from the wealth Al Gore has made from this movement, far worse is the abuse the left has dealt us with our own money. Global warming has facilitated a number of things:

• Global warming has been nothing more than the magic bullet the International community has used against the US to redistribute our wealth across seas and oceans into every border and in the pockets of politicians worldwide.  In the name of power and money, the left has perpetuated this belief under the guise of making all countries equal.  That said, Global Warming is the equivalent of reparations to those whom we owe nothing.
• Global warming has been one giant market manipulation.  Yes, there are positive effects from building more efficient manufacturing and minimizing our impact on the environment.  For decades now, it’s been called conservation and has been the practice of many conservatives nationwide.  Global warming has been a cultural tax on businesses and for the billions that have been invested thus far there has been very little return.
• Global warming has been an opportunity for risk-free investments for proponents.  Why is green technology risk-free?  Because no matter what happens the Federal Government and green lobby has been there to offer subsidies when business was down to ensure success of the green movement.

The American Thinker posted an article January 18th, which posed very interesting questions.  They referenced an observation made by a writer for the National Post.  While there were definite flaws in parts of his observation, this one aspect cannot be ignored.

He said, “For many weeks now, readers have been sending me emails describing how Google has been doing its best to hide information relating to Climategate, which has been the single biggest story on the Internet since the Climategate emails came to light on November 19. By Nov. 26, the term had gone viral and Google returned more results for “climategate” (10.4 million) than for “global warming” (10.1 million). As the Climate Scandal exploded, and increasing numbers of blog sites covered it, the number of web pages with Climategate continued to climb. On Dec. 7, Google’s search engine found 31.6 million hits for people who searched for “Climategate.”

Sometime around then, in early December, Google began to minimize the Climategate scandal by hiding Climategate pages from its users. By Dec. 17, the number of climategate pages that a Google search found dropped by almost 10 million, to 22.2 million. One day later Google dropped its find by another 8 million pages, to 14.1 million. By Dec. 23, Google could find only 7.5 million hits and on Dec. 24 just 6 million. And yesterday, when I checked, Google reported a mere 1.8 million climategate pages.”

My search yesterday rendered 1.5 million.  I find this alarming for two reasons.  First, historically Google has been accused of cheating the system for financial gain (China’s Googlegate) or for political gain (Child Online Protection Act).  The second reason is the question posed by The American Thinker:

“Has Google invested heavily in ‘green’ anti global warming technologies?  Google has close ties with Al Gore and Obama.”

So what is the underlying issue I’ve been talking about? The fact that with all of this, the LEFT STILL REFUSES TO VET THE SCIENCE BEHIND GLOBAL WARMING. Rather they insist on throwing billions of tax payer dollars in the pockets of international leaders while our nation’s unemployment sits above 10%.  This is insanity.  This is destructive.  This behavior is un-American!

To make matters worse, I read a report on January 14th about the lead scientist in climategate, having been awarded over $500,000 this past June as a grant for their work.  This was half a million dollars that was awarded from Obama’s Stimulus Package.

Even with all of this, the left perpetuates this fraud.  This is gross negligence.  They refuse to debate the issue.  They refuse to vet the issue in full.  The only reason they are holding off on Cap and Trade is because they don’t want to hurt themselves this next election cycle in 2010.  This is demeaning to the American public that they think we are so stupid that we won’t hold them accountable this 2010. I know some of you reading this, from the left, disagree with all the facts I have stated and keep thinking in your heads, “Funk science is Junk science.” Well, then let’s vet the issue in full.  That is all I ask.  Let us look not at the policy issues of global warming but at the actual science that is backing it.  If you cannot prove it without a shadow of doubt than it is not worth billions of our tax dollars, especially when many Americans are out of jobs.

When I get to Washington this November, you have my word, that no matter what the issue, the facts will be fully vetted so that tax payer’s money is not wasted and so you have the peace of mind to know we are working for you.  Not for the dollar.

California has had their own cap and trade scheme since 2006.  The plan was to begin in 2012 and their goal would be to decrease carbon emissions back to 1990s levels by 2020.  The Wall Street Journal pointed out that at the time this bill was passed California had less than 5% unemployment and their economy was growing.  More importantly, the “green lobby” in California promised jobs as the result of this effort.

Fast forward to today.  California is nearly a bankrupt state and unemployment is at 12.5%.  That’s 12.5% of the most populous state in the country.  Now, the “green lobby’s” promise of jobs isn’t so promising.  Cap and trade hurts the economy, hands down.  It will boost energy costs and increase unemployment.  The news media loves talking about how many industries can and will be more profitable with a cap and trade system.  Well, that’s only because the US government will be subsidizing some their profits to make it happen.  It’s an artificial growth that’s not sustainable. Government should never be in the business of picking winners and losers.

Further, with unemployment increased from cap and trade, along with higher energy costs, the number of uninsured Americans will increase as well.

Cap and trade is not good for California and it’s not good for America.  If Californians are finally realizing that Cap and Trade will hurt them if they leave this scheme intact, it’s time the rest of America does to.  The funny thing about it is while Californians and the Washington inside the beltway crowd recognize the disaster that would come of Cap and Trade they are still willing to go forward with it once unemployment gets back down to 5.5%.  Typical, they see the error in their ways but they’ll go ahead and move forward with it once unemployment is low enough again.

It really comes down to this.  Cap and Trade is bad for America, it’s bad for Iowa and it’s bad for District Three.  We need to get radical environmental interests out of politics and bring rational logic back into the discussion.