Thursday, July 30, 2009

Former House Majority Leader Calls Health Care Crisis, Global Warming “Hyped Fictions” – Talk Radio News Service
“Global warming might be, in fact, one of the most hyped fictions in America today,” says former Majority Leader Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX). He went on to say that the “most treasured umbrella objectives in public policy” right now are to “create the illusion of a crisis and then…demonstrate the need for their policies of government growth and income redistribution as a resolution of the crisis.” Armey concludes that global warming and the health care crisis are “high-profile fictions designed to serve the political purposes of the majority party.”
Green Jobs Kill Jobs Says Dick Armey – Talk Radio News Service
For every green job created, two jobs will be destroyed says former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX). Armey adds that “what global warming public policy is really all about is the artificial creation of increased scarcity of what is probably the most high linkage resource in America and the world.”
Western Caucus GOP’ers Predict “Cap And Tax” Disaster – Talk Radio News Service
“Cap and Trade is a jobs killer,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said in a bicameral Western Caucus hearing on the impact of Cap and Trade on jobs Thursday. He urged the Obama administration to “get their priorities straight,” and start creating jobs.
Waxman-Markey Bill Will Have Negative Consequences, Warns U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Official – Talk Radio News Service
Bill Kovacs, Senior Vice President of the Environment, Technology, and Regulatory Division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, warns that the Waxman-Markey bill will promote regulatory chaos, foster lawsuits, harm the economy, and ultimately do nothing to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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