Revelation highlights how Congress members are bought and paid for by the elite in Washington
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
In a Campaign for Liberty video
commentary, Ron Paul reveals that even though up to 20 Democrats
opposed the controversial climate bill, they voted for it anyway,
underscoring once again how the vast majority of Congress members are
bought and paid for by the elite in Washington.
The Congressman points out that the
eight Republicans who voted for the bill did so in order to provide
political cover for the Democrats. Even if those Republicans had not
defected, some of the 44 Democrats who voted against the bill would
have changed their votes anyway to ensure the bill’s passage.
“One Democrat talked to me, a friend
of mine,” said Paul, “and I said how are you going to vote on this bill
and he said I’m going to vote for the bill but then he sort of
whispered and he said, but I sure hope it doesn’t pass.”
Asked why he was voting for a bill that he actually opposed, the Democrat responded, “yeah I have to do that.”
“I said are there any other Democrats
that are going to be voting for it and they really don’t like the bill,
and he said, oh yeah about 15 or 20 of them,” added Paul.
This underlines how Washington is
completely corrupt at its core and how, even if individual members of
Congress oppose a bill, they vote for it anyway just to satisfy the
agenda of the elite and maintain the status quo.
If the 15 or 20 Democrats who opposed
the bill had actually voted against it, the bill would have failed and
America would not be facing another great depression, a massive
lowering of living standards, and the complete regulation of every
aspect of our lives, all of which the climate bill will grease the
skids for.
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Writing on the Campaign for Liberty website, Congressman Paul states that the climate bill will “put another nail in the economy’s coffin”.
Paul compares the carbon trading scam, a system that is owned and will benefit
to the tune of billions or even trillions of dollars long time
environmental hysterics like Al Gore and Maurice Strong, to how the
Catholic Church sold indulgences to sinners from the 10th century
onwards.
The Congressman illustrates how the
Obama administration has cited Spain as an example of how a
“progressive energy policy” can be successful, when in fact Spain is in
economic turmoil partly as a result of this very policy.
“The administration has pointed to Spain as a shining example
of this type of progressive energy policy. Spain has been massively
diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored
environmental projects for the better part of a decade, and many in
Washington apparently like what they see. However, under no
circumstances should anyone serious about economic recovery emulate an
economy that is now approaching 20 percent unemployment, where every
green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000
each!”
“The real inconvenient truth is that the cost of
government regulations, taxes, fees, red tape and bureaucracy is a
considerable expense that has to be considered when companies decide
where to do business and how many people they can afford to hire.
Increasing governmental burden directly causes capital flight and job
losses, as Spain has learned. In this global economy its easy enough
for businesses to relocate to countries that are more politically
friendly to economic growth. If our government continues to kick the
economy while its down, it will be a long time before it gets back up.
In fact, jobs are much more likely to go overseas, compounding our
problems.”
Paul concludes by pointing out that the climate
bill is based around the manufactured threat of global warming and that
even if one accepts the premise that CO2 emissions cause significant
temperature increases, the biggest polluters, the U.S. government and
specifically the U.S. military, will be exempt from most of the new EPA
regulations anyway.
Watch the clip of the Congressman’s comments below.