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Record numbers now licensed

to pack heat

Firearms deaths fall as millions obtain permits to carry concealed

guns


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34714389...s-life/from/ET

[belgareth]

Record

numbers now licensed to pack heat

Firearms deaths fall as millions obtain permits to carry concealed

guns


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34714389...s-life/from/ET

That seems logical.

With the required training it should cut down on accidental shootings. And with the required target practice it

should decrease the number of criminals on the street too.

[belgareth]

NOTE: I've read the bill and some of what is said here is slight exaggeration, but not

much. Bel.

Cap and Trade: A License Required for your

Home

We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and

Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. We are ready to join the

next march on Washington!
This

Congress and whoever on their staffs that write this junk are truly out to destroy the middle class of the

USA....


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]A License Required for your house

Thinking

about selling your house - A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable!




Only the beginning from this administration! Home

owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!



Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade

Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency

standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by

the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.



The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly

non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year.

• No one is excluded.
  
  

However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in

their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new

cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be

needed to bail out everyone else.


But wait. This

awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is

this:

• A year from now you won't be able to
  
  sell your house. Yes, you read that right.

The

caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home,

then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included.

• In effect, this bill prevents you from selling
  
  your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.
  
  
• To get this permission, you will have to have the
  
  energy efficiency of your home measured.
• Then the
  
  government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications
  
  to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency
  
  requirements.
• Then you will have to get your home
  
  measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what
  
  your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air
  
  conditioner.
• If you don't get a high enough rating,
  
  you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the
  
  automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.
  
  

The EPA administrator, appointed by the President,

will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to

make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best

interest. Requirements are set low initial y so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much

tougher new standards every year.

• The Act
  
  itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings.
  
  
• However, the EPA administrator can set higher
  
  standards at any time.
  
  

Sect. 202:


Building Retrofit Program mandates a national

retrofit program to increase the energy efficiency of all existing homes across

America .

Beginning 1

year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to

comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act.



You had better sell

soon, because the standards will be raised each year and will be really hard (i.e., ex$pen$ive) to meet in a few

years. Oh, goody! The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousand dollars to comply with the

retrofit program requirements if you meet certain energy efficiency levels. But, wait, the State can set additional

requirements on who qualifies to receive the grants.



You should expect requirements such as

"can't have an income of more than $50K per year", "home selling price can't be more than $125K", or anything else

to target the upper middle class (and that's YOU) and prevent them from qualifying for the grants.


Most of us won't get a dime and

will have to pay the entire cost of the retrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more "change you

can believe in."



Sect. 304:


Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes

establishes new energy efficiency guidelines for the National

Building Code and mandates at 304(d), Application of National Code to State and Local Jurisdictions, that 1

year after enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must

adopt the National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain a certification from the federal

government that their state and/or local codes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building

Code energy efficiency

standards.

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H.R. 2454:

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