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This statement arrived in my email today, from Viv Forbes, who is fighting the carbon taxes killing the Australian economy.  He has done a fantastic job of assembling all of the government expenditures (taxes) being thrown away in the name of climate change regulation and legislation.  Every country that has made “commitments” under the Kyoto Protocol wastes billions, even trillions, of our taxpayer dollars, in this ridiculous quest for a sustainable planet.  This includes the United States of America, who, although the treaty was never ratified by the Senate, has been quietly but through executive order, legislation, and regulation, imposing harsh restrictions on our carbon dioxide emitting industries, utilities, and manufacturing facilities.  Read below the scope of Australian dollars wasted on climate change and realize how much of this is happening here in America.

For Immediate Release

14^th May 2013

Fix the Budget by Cutting Climate Waste

Media Statement by Viv Forbes

Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition.

Any quotes taken directly from this statement may be attributed to Mr Forbes

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the federal government to reduce the burden of the Climate Industry on all taxpayers and consumers.

The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that the biggest national scandal today was how the whole government apparatus, including the nationalised research and media industries and parts of the opposition, was totally captive to a religious belief that a destructive war on carbon energy will somehow provide benefits to some future generation of Australians by cooling the climate and preventing extreme weather events.

“This is a delusion.”

Quote: It was the great Milton Friedman who said “There is only one tax on the people and that is government spending.”

Cutting expenditure, not re-arranging expenditure, must be the total focus of this budget.

And the first candidate for spending cuts must be the totally useless Climate Change Industry.

Every department, program, research grant, travel grant or salary with climate, warming, carbon, sustainability, renewable, sequestration, clean coal, ethanol or IPCC in its title or mission statement should be abolished forthwith together with its staffing. This list must include but not be restricted to:

• The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) and its dependants, saving about $3.2 billion.

• The Clean Energy Finance Corporation, saving about $10 billion.

• The Emerging Renewables Program, saving about $126 million.

• The Clean Technology Innovation Program, saving about $200 million.

• Subsidies to Coal-fired electricity generators, saving about $5.5 billion. (This has to be the ultimate madness – the government levies a crippling carbon tax on coal-fired electricity generation to force them to close and then pays huge subsidies to the same generators to delay their closure).

•  All Climate Change “Research” focused on carbon dioxide, saving about $300 million.

• “Contracts for Closure” – payments to ensure closure of some electricity generators (unbelievable – surely the carbon tax will do this).

• The Coal Sector Jobs Package – payments to coal mines to offset the cost of the carbon tax- just abolish the tax.

• Coal Sector Assistance Package – Subsidies to some Coal Mines (another stupidity – repaying some of the carbon tax they took in the first place).

• Everything funded under the Clean Energy Future Plan.

• All renewable energy subsidies.

• The Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund.

•  The Ethanol Production Grants Program – a subsidy per litre of ethanol produced.

• All climate change officials, lawyers, inspectors and auditors everywhere, maybe 13,000 of them saving, say, $2 billion per year.

• The offices of the Climate Commissioner and the Clean Energy Regulator – whatever they cost is wasted money.

• The whole Carbon Capture and Storage empire – The National Low Emissions Coal Initiative, the CCS Flagships Program, the National Carbon Dioxide Infrastructure Plan, and the Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.

• Support for all the International Climate Forums and Conferences via APEC, CEM, G20, IEA, IEF, IPEEC, IRENA, IPCC and all the travel costs associated with attendance.

• All handouts under the Green Precincts Fund – $15M spent to date.

• All government advertising, market research, media monitoring, media advisers and logo designers promoting the carbon tax, the Department of Climate Change, smart meters or other climate and green energy initiatives.

• Donations to Green Friends such as the Climate Institute, the Australian Conservation Council, Climate Works Australia, Green Cross Australia, and the ACTU – $3 million spent already.

To “balance” all of these reduced expenditures the government must also abolish the carbon tax and all fuel taxes not related directly to public road usage and applied to road construction and maintenance.

Note: The above list probably includes errors, double counting and omissions, but such is the confusion and proliferation of the alphabet soup of what poses as “Climate Policy” that it is doubtful if anyone could prepare an accurate and comprehensive list. The only feasible solution is to start cutting, biggest first. None of them will be missed, except with relief by taxpayers and consumers.

Viv Forbes,

Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition

www.carbon-sense.com

Rosewood    Qld   Australia
forbes@carbon-sense.com

Having personal experience, she is right on, and people must challenge and end this indoctrination of our children to hate America and radicalize them to be willing to die for Islam!  It has worked so well in our secondary education system, they have now infiltrated our elementary, middle, and high schools.

Why are American children being encouraged to pretend to be Muslims?  Where is the separation of church and state when it comes to Islam?

To watch the video, click here.

Americans rely on the Constitution of the United States of America to protect their rights and restrict the powers of the federal government from violating these rights.  The blow back from the vast majority of Americans as our “trusted servants” seek to limit our Second Amendment rights has been tremendous.  The goal of the progressives is first to register, and then confiscate, the firearms of law abiding citizens.  They are taking advantage of the pleas to “do something” to stop the horrific crimes we have seen recently in Newtown and Aurora, but it appears, at least for the time being, nothing will be accomplished. The Manchin-Toomey gun amendment failed to pass the Senate, with 54 Senators in favor of the bill and 46 against.  The bill required 60 votes to move forward.  We are too close to the 2014 elections, and no one wants to deal with the blowback from their constituents if they vote to infringe on any of our rights to keep and bear arms.

This past week, Vendors using the Square Account mobile phone application, which processes credit and debit card transactions, received an updated user agreement dated May 9^th, 2013.  In this agreement, Part One, Section 6, states “By creating a Square Account, you also confirm that you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities: [this section has been modified to add item number] “(23) sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury.”  It stands to reason the credit card companies and banks will follow.  How many gun show vendors use Square to process their sales transactions?  How soon will banks and credit card companies follow suit?  Is this merely a conscientious decision by the owners of Square to not accept transactions involving firearms or other weapons, or is this a result of collusion with anti-Second Amendment officials in our government to “infringe” on our Second Amendment rights and circumvent Congressional legislation?

While is it difficult to explain how the federally mandated Common Core standards affect teachers and students in their daily classroom situation, this letter from a teacher to her legislator captures the rigid schedule and control of the timing of the presentation of materials.   Speaking to teachers, many have become disheartened by this attempt to control not just what they teach, but also how and when they teach.  Teaching our children is a calling, and the love of teaching drives people into this career.  It is not the money, obviously, sad to say.  They are stressed about the control and monitoring of keeping on schedule, whether they believe their students have “gotten it” or not.  They must move on to keep on schedule.  The children hate it, the teachers hate it, and the parents hate it.  So why are we allowing the federal government to force us to incorporate such an obviously flawed method of education into our schools?  To read the letter, click here.

Below is a video from Americans for Prosperity regarding the federal control and power grab through Common Core.