"We can't drive our SUVs
and eat as much as we want
and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ..."
- Barack Hussein Obama, May 2008
You can argue whether Candidate Obama was making a campaign promise or a threat, and you can argue whether he was having a prophetic moment or laying out a sinister plan for the country, but you can't say it hasn't come true.
Over two hundred West Virginians didn't get to "eat as much as they want" at noontime today, because it was more important to them to get out and show their support for our endangered and much-maligned coal industry, and protest Washington's unprecedented assault on our liberty and livelihood.
Without even passing a capntrade bill, the Obama government has found a way to decimate West Virginia: the EPA can simply strangle us to death by delaying mining permits. Even our governor - who is a Democrat and supported Obama - is calling it "cruel and inhumane."
Last week, Manchin told MetroNews that he believes the EPA doesn't like mining and is "trying to kill off surface mining through regulation what they cannot get done through legislation."
"This can't go on, just continue to delay, delay and delay, when the people who are delaying it and have the power to delay it don't have the answers or clear direction," Manchin told MetroNews.
More people should have listened to Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, who saw this coming months ago:
During an interview... he said reviews of permits for several years have kept Massey from moving forward at proposed mine sites.
"It's permanent review," Blankenship said. "These permits have probably been under review for five or six years by I don't know how many different government agencies. It's just a continuum. There never seems to be an end to them."
He also criticized President Barack Obama's Administration for pushing an agenda of global warming at a time of economic crisis. "They're saying we want energy independence. We're concerned about homeland security, we're concerned about jobs, and yet every specific action they take says the opposite."
Meanwhile, Obama's stimulus is making its way into our state. Almost a million taxpayer dollars are going to finance a biomedical research project - to investigate whether the enzyme phosphodiesterase-2 (PDE2), found in brain cells, could be regulated by new drugs to control anxiety, depression and other psychiatric disorders.
In October of last year, the unemployment rate in WV was 3.7 percent. Now it's close to ten, and the Obama administration has only just begun to intrude on our lives and impose Change.
If anyone in Washington were listening, I would tell them we don't need drugs to remedy our anxiety and depression. We need only to regain the liberty that has been taken from us, the freedom to work and prosper.
West Virginia Tax Day Tea Party ~ April 15, 2009
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