May 16, 2012
This Week's Stakelbeck on Terror Show: Islamization in America
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller -- two leading voices in the fight against the Islamization of the West -- join Stakelbeck to discuss Islamic honor killings in America, Sharia law in your backyard, and the latest on the Ground Zero mega-mosque. Also discussed is Spencer's eye-opening new book, Did Muhammed Exist?
Needless to say, the politically-correct might want to skip this:
Hat tip - Infidel Task Force
Posted by Richard at 5:19 PM| Comments
Re: Cain Endorses Romney
Not that it matters a whole lot, especially given it's his third endorsement, but Herman Cain has now endorsed Mitt Romney.
CNN reports:
Herman Cain, who suspended his own bid for the GOP presidential nomination amid a flurry of allegations of past sexual impropriety, backed Mitt Romney Wednesday - his third endorsement after dropping out of the race."I've met with him privately and now I'm telling everyone publicly, if Mitt Romney wasn't your favorite candidate for the Republican nomination, get over it! We need unity to take back the White House, the Senate and keep control of the House of Representatives," Cain wrote in a statement.
The former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza, Cain also held an endorsement event in Washington, D.C., where he was flanked by Rep. Michele Bachmann, herself a former presidential candidate, and Rep. Steve King of Iowa.
In a veiled shot at President Barack Obama's explanation for his change in position of same-sex marriage, Cain explained his multiple previous endorsements as "my endorsement evolved."
While Cain's endorsement may not mean a whole lot in the grand scheme of things, he's spot-on about the need for unity in the GOP which indeed needs to take back the White House, the Senate and keep control of the House of Representatives. As Jim DeMint says in his book, "Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse," Election 2012 just may be America's last chance to turn our country around, save our freedoms, and rescue America from economic armageddon.
Anyone that hasn't already recognized that America stands at a tipping point of becoming a nanny state, with the payers and producers being far outnumbered by the takers and receivers, ever-increasing (Obama-induced) class warfare and divisiveness, and an ever-increasing loss of liberty and freedom, just hasn't been paying attention.
Related video: While I'm not a huge fan of John Boehner, he manages to perfectly sum up the situation: 2012 is America's Last Chance: It's The Most Important Election In History:
Take the time to watch Part 2 - here.
Posted by Richard at 2:54 PM| Comments
Michelle Obama - A 'Stealth Co-President'?
Try hard to hold back your surprise ... but according to Edward Klein's The Amateur -- First Lady Michelle Obama comprises one half of a "stealth co-presidency."
One far-left socialist ideologue mismanaging the country is bad enough, but two? Little wonder our nation is so divided and going downhill so rapidly.
Posted by Richard at 1:02 PM| Comments
Powerful New SBA Ad Skewers Obama's Phony "War on Women" Meme (Video)
The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List pushes back against the Democrat's dishonest "war on women" meme in this powerful new ad that borrows from the style of war propaganda mixed with a bit of '1984.' The first full minute of the spot takes the form of a government newsreel, from the Bureau of Womanhood Conformity. It warns that women who do not toe the government line will no longer be considered legitimate women, at least until they get re-educated to conform to the beliefs of Dear Leaders Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi (hat tip - Ed Morrissey):
Key excerpts from the video include:Female Voice:
"Welcome to the Bureau of Womanhood Conformity.
Independent thoughts are considered subversive.
Because all must agree with our Leader ... "
"If you refuse to accept that pregnancy is a punishment, you're denied as well."President Obama:
"I don't want them punished with a baby."Female Voice:
"If you don't believe that abortion isn't murder ...
If you don't believe in aborting a child for being the wrong gender ...
And if you don't believe that stay-at-home mothers aren't real workers ...
You are not a real, conformed woman."
Simply put, in the mind of Obama and his minions, thinking for yourself and adhering to your own beliefs and values will get you tossed out of the "Approved Womenhood League."
The petition mentioned at the end of the video can be found here.
From SBA:
"The real 'war on women' is the one being waged against women of faith and conscience," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "While this ad uses humor to make a point, the truth is that our rights are at stake. The Obama administration, their allies in Congress and the abortion lobby must end the assault on Life, conscience and religious liberty now."
Posted by Richard at 12:16 PM| Comments
New Crossroads GPS Ad: Obama's Promise
A better title would be 'Obama's Broken Promises' ...
According to Jim Geraghty, Crossroads GPS is going to spend $25 million to air it in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Meanwhile, the left-leaning Politifact has a much more extensive list of Obama's broken promises, most of which conservatives are pleased with.
Related: Barack Obama's Broken Promises, Policy Reversals and Continuous Flip Flops
Posted by Richard at 11:58 AM| Comments
Former State Department Official: Obama softline policy toward Iran, North Korea creates a more dangerous world
Bill Gertz reports at The Washington Free Beacon that Robert Joseph, the State Department's former top weapons proliferation official, said recently that the Obama administration's failure to threaten military force against Iran had helped advance the covert nuclear arms program there:
"Despite multiple claims that the sanctions are working, the scope and the pace of Iran's nuclear program are expanding and accelerating," Joseph said at a breakfast meeting May 9.Given that Joseph is an adviser to Mitt Romney, one could say that his criticism of Obama's foreign policy is just an unfounded partisan attack. However, assuming the man has his facts right, and just going by the math ... it's damned hard to argue with the plain truth that under Obama's softline, touchy-feely, liberal-progressive, ideologically-based, "unshakable faith in engagement" with Tehran and Pyongyang, and a global push for eliminating all nuclear weapons -- we are in, at the very least, twice as much danger now as when Obama first took office. And things are continuing downhill from here as Iran and Pyongyang's leaders continue to play us like a fiddle while we do little more than dance to their tunes.Iran operated about 4,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium at a plant near Natanz at the end of 2008. Three years later, the IAEA reported that Iran's enrichment capacity in Natanz doubled to more than 8,000 centrifuges, he said.
Joseph, an adviser to presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said the two main themes of administration efforts to stop the flow of nuclear and other arms has been "an unshakable faith in engagement" with Tehran and Pyongyang and a global push for eliminating all nuclear weapons.
"My bottom line is that both of these themes have actually undermined our ability to stop proliferation, and in fact may produce the opposite effects of those intended, a more proliferated and more unstable and dangerous world," Joseph said.
On Iran, Joseph said Tehran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium increased five-fold from about 1,000 kilograms in early 2009 to over 5,000 kilograms today.
Additionally, the formerly covert underground nuclear plant is producing 20-percent enriched uranium, which is closer to what is needed for producing weapons.
[...] Obama's comment in Seoul recently to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he will be more flexible on missile defense talks after the November elections highlights "the broader ideological context of the anti-nuclear agenda of the administration," Joseph said.
"Unlike in Libya and Syria and elsewhere, where the administration is leading from behind, in the pursuit of a nuclear free world, it's leading from the front," he said. "The problem is no one else is following. And the consequences are likely, in my view, to be more proliferation, more instability, as the U.S. is challenged by both adversaries and friends alike for a lack of capability and a lack of resolve."
Related: Iran Declares Victory in Nuclear Talks
Posted by Richard at 11:02 AM| Comments
May 15, 2012
Rasmussen Survey of Trust on Issues: Obama v. Romney
Rasmussen reports that its survey of 1000 likely voters conducted on May 10-11 shows they now trust likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney more than President Obama on all five issues regularly surveyed by Rasmussen Reports, especially when it comes to money:
The question given:
I'm going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which presidential candidate you trust more to handle that issue -- Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.The Responses:
Economy
- Mitt Romney 51% {49%} (45%) [48%]
- Barack Obama 39% {39%} (44%) [39%]
Health care
- Mitt Romney 45% {46%} (41%)
- Barack Obama 40% {42%} (44%)
National security
- Mitt Romney 44% {42%} (41%)
- Barack Obama 42% {45%} (45%)
Taxes
- Mitt Romney 48% {47%} (45%)
- Barack Obama 38% {42%} (45%)
Energy Policy
- Mitt Romney 43% {45%}
- Barack Obama 40% {43%}
National survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted May 10-11, 2012. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points. Results from the poll conducted April 10-11, 2012 are in curly brackets. Results from the poll conducted March 1-2, 2012 are in parentheses. Results from the poll conducted January 13-14, 2012 are in square brackets.
Related: The Times Buries Unfavorable Obama Poll (Even an NYT poll looks good for Romney)
Hat tip - Argo Journal
Posted by Richard at 3:33 PM| Comments
Obama Won't Grade Himself on the Economy
Apparently, President Obama refused to give himself a grade for his work on the economy during his interview on The View. Little wonder; after all ... there are numerous good reasons that he should avoid doing so. Especially when even a 'C-' would've been a stretch.
Posted by Richard at 3:15 PM| Comments
James O'Keefe's Latest Voter Fraud Expose': North Carolina Voter ID Practices?
James O'Keefe's Project Veritas is at it again, this time they finds people in North Carolina who are listed as non-citizens according to Jury refusal forms and who are also registered to vote. PV gets their comment and are offered their ballots ... even offered a ballot in the name of a dead man, and interview an election Judge who says he only wants to uphold parts of the state constitution.PV also interviews officials at UNC who seemingly embrace voter fraud (hat tip - Breibart):>br/>
So, Zbigniew Gorzkowski is not a citizen, yet he voted, right?
Oops, on the other hand ... could it be that there's at least one problem here and O'Keefe failed to do a simple Nexis search to get his facts straight? (apologies for the link to Think Progress)
Posted by Richard at 2:42 PM| Comments
Re: 'Clinton scolds voters for backing Republicans'
Joel Gehrke reports at The Washington Examiner that former President Bill Clinton scolded American voters for backing congressional Republicans in 2010, arguing that voters have to pay more attention during campaign and take "ownership" of government:
"[Americans] go around telling people how sorry these politicians are, and they voted for all of them," Clinton said this morning during the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit. "One of the problems is that we listen to the rhetoric of politicians and we pay almost no attention to their specific [plans]," he said, referring to the Republican legislators elected in 2010.Might I suggest that Bubba certainly has the right idea, but it's misdirected against the wrong party. Voters should indeed "take ownership" of government, look beyond the political rhetoric (and class warfare), and pay attention to politician's specific plans (and especially to the fact that they have no plan, no budget, ignore entitlement reform, and promote only divisiveness and greater debt ... as is the case with Barack Obama and his fellow Dems).He added that "the American people have got to take some ownership here, too."
Posted by Hyscience at 2:08 PM| Comments
Obama -- The Lousy Businessman
Byron York reports that Team Romney plans to paint Obama as a lousy businessman. And going by Obama's track record, they're doing so for a very good reason -- because he indeed is. And compounding the problem ... his 'investment' failures have been paid for with taxpayer dollars:
The Romney campaign wants to introduce a new concept into the debate over President Obama's economic record. Imagine the president ran an investment firm. He poured billions of dollars into green energy projects that didn't work. People lost jobs. He poured billions into sometimes implausible stimulus projects that didn't work, either. And even when he succeeded in keeping companies afloat, as he did with General Motors and Chrysler, he did it by downsizing and laying off thousands of workers.More here.And now, with that record, the president is attacking Mitt Romney for a successful career as a private equity investor at Bain Capital. Obama launched the first Bain attack ad Monday morning, blaming Romney for the failure of a Kansas City steel company, a failure that resulted in the loss of 750 jobs.
"We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer," says one laid-off worker in the Obama ad.
Romney has long known the attack was coming. His campaign conducted a thorough study of all of Bain's dealings while Romney was there; they feel confident that Romney's record of successes far outweighs the failures. Romney also had an ad of his own waiting on Monday, featuring a steel mill that is thriving after Bain investments. And the Romney campaign took a hard look at those Obama investments."In the general election, I'll be pointing out that the president took the reins of General Motors and Chrysler, closed factories, closed dealerships, laid off thousands and thousands of workers," Mitt Romney said in January. "He did it to try to save the business."
That's the same sort of thing private equity investors do, Romney says -- they just don't do it with taxpayer dollars, as Obama has. And Romney supporters will likely emphasize that Obama's taxpayer-paid investments often went to people and organizations that contributed big money to Obama's campaign.
"When you're in the private sector, people make decisions based on profit and loss and what's going to create jobs and what's going to work," Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told conservative reporters on a conference call Monday afternoon. "When you have this level of government involvement in our economy, you have things like Solyndra and the decisions relative to the auto layoffs, and you don't have that transparency, you don't know if there's political influence -- who gets a health care waiver from the mandate and who doesn't? -- and they still don't say how they make those decisions."
"This crony capitalism ... is rampant in this administration and is a real problem," Gillespie said, "and yes, we are going to continue to talk about that."
Posted by Hyscience at 11:30 AM| Comments
Conservative Superheroines
The Looking Spoon matches VIP conservative women with some of the best and toughest super-heroines created.
The development of a Liberal Supervillians post is underway.
Posted by Hyscience at 11:13 AM| Comments
Americans Not as Stupid as Barack Obama Thinks
Ross Kaminsky notes that a CBS News/New York Times poll shows that two thirds of Americans believe that President Obama's recent "evolution" on gay marriage was a political stunt while one quarter thinks his change was "mostly because he thinks it is right." Meanwhile, an Obama campaign official has claimed that the poll used a "biased sample" ... despite the fact that the poll was done by two of the most pro-Obama organizations in America.
Posted by Hyscience at 11:04 AM| Comments
Pamphlet: 'Muslim Brotherhood in America'
The Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna, an admirer and supporter of Adolph Hitler and has now become the dominant player in Egypt and Gaza and is on the rise in a number of other areas, including Syria.You can order your copy of the pamphlet by clicking here ($3.00).But even here in America the Brotherhood, which has been active for decades has been increasing in power and influence in the past few years. They are the moving force behind the "mainstream" Islamic organizations such as Council on American-Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R) and the Muslim Students Associations (MSA).
This pamphlet outlines that history, chronicles its growth in America and dissects the insidious hidden agenda behind these seemingly benign organizations. This "Stealth Jihad" is a grave threat to the future freedoms and liberties of all Americans and threatens the basis of our laws in the Constitution.
Related: In this YouTube video from Walid Shoebat's site, Tom Trento, of United West, describes the recent collusion of Barack Obama with the Muslim Brotherhood and how the Muslim Brotherhood group ISNA is actively working to reelect Barack Obama:
According to Israel Elad Altman in his 2009 research monograph entitled "Strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement," the Muslim Brotherhood, otherwise known as the Ikhwan:
... believes that its purposes in the West are, for the moment, better advanced by the use of non-violent, stealthy techniques. In that connection, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to establish relations with, influence and, wherever possible, penetrate government circles in executive and legislative branches at the federal, state, and local levels; the law enforcement community; intelligence agencies; the military; penal institutions, the media; think tanks and policy groups; academic institutions, non-Muslim religious communities; and other elites. The Brothers engage in all of these activities and more for one reason: to subvert the targeted communities in furtherance of the Muslim Brother's primary objective -- the triumph of shariah.Much more here.
Posted by Hyscience at 10:34 AM| Comments
May 14, 2012
Conservative Super PAC Ad Focuses On Young Job Seekers
Republicans have created a new group to make inroads with -- one of President Barack Obama's core constituencies: young people, particularly young job seekers. Crossroads Generation, a Super PAC funded by several conservative groups, including American Crossroads, tailors the GOP's economic focused message for the under-30 set, arguing first jobs are harder to come by in the Obama economy:
According to the WSJ, Crossroads Generation is already running $50,000 in paid online ads in several swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.
Posted by Hyscience at 12:05 PM| Comments
Obama's New Attack Ad Debunked (Updated)
Team Obama's new attack ad hitting Mitt Romney for the closure of GST Steel after its purchase by Bain Capital, Romney's former financial firm, has already been thoroughly debunked.
First, here's the ad:
In a nutshell, Romney departed from Bain in 1999, and the GST Bankruptcy Filing and layoffs occurred in 2001. Previous attacks by Team Obama have been given "Three Pinocchios" by The Washington Post for using the same technique -- blaming Romney for decisions his old firm made after he left. (Interestingly, the Washington Post stories on this topic now only appear in the print version; they don't show up otherwise.)
This aside, as Ed Morrissey points out, Bain was responsible for a significant net creation of jobs, not net elimination.
[...] Not every deal is going to work out in business, but Bain did a lot better under Romney than just a break-even record, too. And while it's a natural attack on the One Percent for Team Obama, it highlights Romney's business experience and economic acumen at the expense of their own man.And it turns out that even Steve Rattner, Obama's Car Czar -- the man President Obama chose to run the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, doesn't think very highly of Team Obama's new ad.Besides, as Jim Geraghty points out, it's not as if Obama has never laid off any workers. Two years ago, as part of the deal that dumped billions of dollars into two American automakers, Obama used the force of government to shut down hundreds of auto dealers and lay off tens of thousands of workers -- many perhaps unnecessarily ...
Asked to defend the new two-minute ads featuring a steel worker who lost his job on Morning Joe, Rattner replied: "I think the ad is unfair. ... I do think to pick out an example of someone who lost their job unfortunately, this is part of capitalism. This is part of life. And I don't think there is anything Bain Capital did that they need to be embarrassed about."Clearly, Team Obama has a problem getting it through their thick, leftist, heads that telling a lie, even a big one, and even if they keep repeating it, truth is their enemy.Rattner knows a lot about job losses. As Obama's car czar he ordered the closings of hundreds of GM and Chrysler dealerships that, according to a TARP Inspector General's report, caused "tens of thousands of jobs were lost as a result."
I know they consider themselves experts on propaganda, but they apparently choose to ignore the rest of what Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda said, after the part of telling big lies and telling them often (they already understand that part perfectly):
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."Fortunately, despite the efforts of Team Obama's media propaganda machine, reality still manages to sneak through and sooner or later 'the people' learn the truth, in this case it's the 'sooner'.
Much related: The Hypocrisy of Obama's Bain Bundler (Lavine, according to the Los Angeles Times, is a top Obama bundler and a managing director at Bain Capital. Lavine, who has raised over $100,000 for the president, was at the firm when GST Steel declared bankruptcy. So according to the Obama team's logic, Romney, who had left Bain, is responsible for GST Steel's demise, but Lavine, who was there, is not? Expect to hear more about this connection.)
Update: It didn't take long for the Romney team to fight back, with vigor.
And to end the day, as Matt Coulter notes at the above link, Team Romney has cut their own one minute ad, highlighting the story of another steel company Bain Capital invested in -- one that became highly successful and went on to create more than 6,000 jobs:
Posted by Hyscience at 9:54 AM| Comments
May 13, 2012
Rap Video: 'Dr. of Common Sense' Sings The Obama Lies Song
Like Nice Deb, from whose site I borrowed this, I'm no fan of rap -- don't like it and generally have no tolerance for it ... however, I absolutely 'dig' this song by E.T. Williams, who calls himself the "Dr. of Common Sense": Whateverhappentocomm's YouTube channel:
Yes I sing, Jobs Bill is Paid for, No Boots In Libya, Fence between US and Mexico, Didn't know Jeremiah Wright was Radical, I signed the NDAA, The health care bill, Transparency, defend the Constitution of the United States, Cut Deficit, Unemployment rate, same-sex marriage, Obama sings, Won't Raise taxes, Recovery Act, Obama aided Islamic Extremists, takeover of Egypt, Libya
He also has a website: Whatever Happen To COMMON SENSE.
Take the time to also watch: Common Sense Is Missing, Please Help Me Find Her
Also check out The Obama Golf Counter Website.
Related: President Obama Evolves on Gay Marriage Because of Money
Posted by Richard at 3:21 PM| Comments
Obama Adds Another 'First' To His List
As Warner Todd Huston aptly notes over at Wizbang, Barack Obama has many 'firsts' (some real -- some imagined by the left) ... and among the genuine 'firsts' there are these that immediately come to mind:
And now, according to gay columnist and hack blogger Andrew Sullivan at Newsweek, he has another one:
- First president to preside over a downgrade of America's credit rating
- First to implement the DREAM Act and by executive fiat, by-passing Congress to do it
- First to illicitly make recess appointments
- First to pen two autobiographies before he was 50 years old
- First to attempt to force Americans to buy a product against their will
- First to have almost his entire pre-presidential history successfully withheld from the public
- First to tell a company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory
- First to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago!.

As Huston goes also points out, symbolism is far, far more important to the childish, silly left in America than truth.
Sister Toldjah weighs in with:
... do note the required religious symbolism (gag!), proclaiming our Lightworker (2) chief executive as not just our first Gay president, but some sort of rainbow saint. This, of course, comes from theAnd since Sister Toldjah pointed out Obama and his pastor, Dan Riehl has a bit more on the topic: Obama Tried To Bribe Rev. Wright And A School Lenin Would Have Lovednews magazineObama marketing rag whose editor once proclaimed Obama "like a god."Funny, that god-like saint apparently tried back in 2008 to bribe his racist ex-pastor, in whose church he sat for over 20 years without ever noticing he was a flaming bigot, to shut up. Through intermediaries and with full deniability, of course.
Hardly what one would expected from such an enlightened, sensitive being. Except one from Chicago.
Posted by Richard at 2:59 PM| Comments
May 12, 2012
Romney's Commencement Speech at Liberty University
Mitt Romney was warmly welcomed in Lynchburg, Virginia, this morning for an important address for him and for religious liberty in America -- at Liberty University's commencement. Here's the audio of the address (follows 32 second ad):
Kathryn Jean Lopez has the text of the speech.
The Washington Times reports:
[...] Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney assured the thousands of conservative Christians gathered for the graduation ceremony at Liberty University, the school founded by evangelical icon Jerry Falwell, that he stands with them on traditional marriage.More here."Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman," Mr. Romney said, sparking applause from the more than 30,000 people in attendance.
The former Massachusetts governor was the second Mormon to deliver the commencement address at Liberty University, the largest evangelical university in the country.
His appearance came days after President Obama sparked an uproar by announcing his support for same-sex marriage -- opening the door for Mr. Romney to reach out to a key slice of the Republican electorate that has been slow to warm to him.
Mr. Romney used the nearly 19-minute address to focus on the vital role that faith plays in his life, while taking a a few thinly veiled swipes at what he sees as President Obama's failures and attacks on religious freedoms.
"It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man," he said, in an apparent allusion to the recent dust-up over the Obama administration's decision to require institutions with a religious affiliation to provide insurance that covers contraceptives.
"There is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action," he said.
[...] "The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of the family," he said.
Posted by Richard at 12:13 PM| Comments
New EPA Creation: 'Cap-and-trade Simulator'
Very troubling, indeed:
So what does this new Ecoland simulator from Obama's EPA actually demonstrate? According to Inside EPA, it shows that a carbon-trading system raises prices quickly, cuts electricity production, and in general could signal a death knell for the US economy ...Says a whole lot about what a second Obama term would look like.... a shortfall of 36.8%, the kind of gap (that) would make energy prices skyrocket, as Obama promised in January 2008. It would mean that businesses couldn't afford to expand, which would cut capital equipment sales, and also kill the engine of job creation -- small businesses, which need lower entry costs to even begin operations. Food prices, which are dependent on energy costs, would rapidly rise, burning through whatever disposable income was left after paying the electrical and gas bills. In short, we'd be capping our future and trading it for brownouts, energy rationing, and poverty.

















