Progressives pretend to care about the people, but they don’t. All they care about is control.
Capitol News Connection: “President Obama wants to price us out of energy, this is a war on how we live in America and don’t regard it lightly,” said Harry Alford of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, which reaches 100 thousand black-owned businesses.
Alford and several minority group advocates converged on Capitol Hill on Monday to blast President Obama’s new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on greenhouse gas emissions that are likely to go into effect next year. They argue they will disproportionately affect African Americans and Hispanics nationwide.
Since the main stream media can’t really accuse Alford of being a racist, instead they’ll just ignore him. And they’ll ignore the effects of Obama’s policies on the very people he claims to want to help.
The new EPA regulations would, among other things, place fees on the use of fossil fuels. According to a new study commissioned by the Affordable Power Alliance, 12 millions jobs are at stake by 2030. Advocates say the job losses would be concentrated in electrical utilities, petro chemicals and the industral sector, said Roger Bezdek, who authored the study.
“The loss of jobs is staggering,” said Bishop Harry Jackson. He runs a national coalition of faith-based leaders, ministers and churches.
The report details the historically higher unemployment rates in minority communities compared to whites. It finds that African Americans have generally seen twice as high unemployment as whites. Additionally, unemployment length tends to be longer, and minorities have a harder time getting back to work after a recession, the report finds.
Advocates say minority families would be hit hard by a tax on fossil fuels because Hispanics and African Americans on average have higher utility usage. The average black family spends 50 percent more on utilities than whites, and Hispanics spend 10 percent more.
Congressional Black Caucus member Danny Davis explains his support (D-IL) for the economically devastating policy.
“I am in agreement with those that say we need to have cleaner air, and that we need to improve the environment, but I also know that you can’t get the rain without the thunder and the lightning,” Davis said. “There might be some costs attached to it.”
The costs he’s referring to are the livelihoods of millions of Americans.
Does anyone still believe progressives are looking out for the people?
Via Free Republic
