Re: The Republican party doesn't give one shit about Americans.

On Jul 16, 6:13 pm, itsall_bull <itsall_b...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 4:14 pm, Bill <b...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Sid9 wrote:
> > > EPA document ties public health problems to global warming; White Hou
se
> > > tried to bury analysis
> > > By DINA CAPPIELLO , Associated Press
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> > > July 14, 2008
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> > > WASHINGTON - Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from 
heat
> > > waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an ana
lysis
> > > the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.
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> > > In a 149-page document released Monday, the experts laid out for the 
first
> > > time the scientific case for the grave risks that global warming pose
s to
> > > people, and to the food, energy and water on which society depends.
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> > > "Risk (to human health, society and the environment) increases with
> > > increases in both the rate and magnitude of climate change,"
scientis
ts at
> > > the Environmental Protection Agency said. Global warming, they wrote,
is
> > > "unequivocal" and humans are to blame.
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> > > The document suggests that extreme weather events and diseases carrie
d by
> > > ticks and other organisms could kill more people as temperatures rise
.
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> > > Allergies could worsen because climate change could produce more poll
en.
> > > Smog, a leading cause of respiratory illness and lung disease, could 
become
> > > more severe in many parts of the country. At the same time, global wa
rming
> > > could mean fewer illnesses and deaths due to cold.
>
> > > "This document inescapably, unmistakably shows that global warming
po
llution
> > > not only threatens human health and welfare, but it is adversely impa
cting
> > > human health and welfare today," said Vickie Patton, deputy general
c
ounsel
> > > for the Environmental Defense Fund. "What this document demonstrates

is that
> > > the imperative for action is now."
>
> > > While the science pointed to a link between public health and climate
> > > change, the Bush administration has worked to discourage such a conne
ction.
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> > > To acknowledge one would compel the government to regulate greenhouse
gases.
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> > > The administration on Friday dismissed the scientists' findings when 
it made
> > > clear that the Clean Air Act was the wrong tool to control global war
ming
> > > pollution. Instead, the administration asked for public comment on a 
range
> > > of ways to reduce greenhouse gases from cars, airplanes, trains and
> > > smokestacks under the 1970 law.
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> > > A better solution, the EPA said, would have Congress writing a law ai
med
> > > just at global warming.
>
> > > Jonathan Shradar, a spokesman for EPA chief Stephen Johnson, said tha
t while
> > > the administrator knows that "the science is clear and that climate
c
hange
> > > is a significant issue", Johnson did not want to make a "rash
decisio
n under
> > > the wrong law."
>
> > > "Once there is an endangerment finding, then the Clean Air Act is
act
ivated
> > > and regulation may begin," Shradar said.
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> > > In December, the White House refused to open an e-mail from the EPA t
hat
> > > included the finding that climate change endangered public welfare. T
he
> > > determination was based on an earlier, and similar version of the doc
ument
> > > released Monday. At the time, the White House insisted on removing al
l
> > > references to the science, according to Jason K. Burnett, a former ad
viser
> > > to Johnson on climate issues.
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> > > Burnett, a Democrat, has charged that Vice President Dick Cheney's of
fice
> > > deleted portions of congressional testimony last October prepared by 
the
> > > head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that made simi
lar
> > > assertions on the health effects of global warming. The White House c
ontends
> > > the testimony was changed because of doubts about the science.
>
> > > After the release of the EPA analysis, industry representatives sugge
sted
> > > the link between climate change and health was weak.
>
> > > "The question is not a scientific one. It is a legal and political
qu
estion,
> > > of how much impact justifies the extraordinary use of the Clean Air A
ct,"
> > > said Scott Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating C
ouncil,
> > > a coalition of power companies.
>
> > > While no one doubts that more people die in a heat wave, the question
is
> > > whether that death is "related to manmade greenhouse gas
emissions," 
he
> > > said.
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> > Both parties are bought out. Both sides are guilty. No way in hell can
> > you not follow the tomatoe truck back to pick up and then to producers.
>
> > games politicians play...black, white, color in between, repugnuts and
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> Politicians of both parties disgust me. I appears that their sole
> mission in life is to swindle we tax payers.


Ron Paul would have done something to fix all that.

Too bad most Americans are dumb as rocks.


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“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute
master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the
entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few
powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of
inflation and depression originate.”

President James A. Garfield  - 20th President of the United States
Two weeks before he is assassinated
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