I bet you didn’t know that cement is really bad for you.
Actually, no bad for you, but that doesn’t stop the EPA from imposing it more absurd rules, known as MACT, that will require the cement industry to invest billions in modern technologies over the next two years to improve air quality.
Hey: We may not have a job, but take a deep breath. Can’t you breathe easier knowing that now that Obama is extending benefits, you’ll be able to breathe easier on the unemployment line?
All this while Obama is calling on Congress to give him more money to create more unionized government workers, more buildings for them, more unionized workers to build bridges for EVERYONE.
I don’t know about you, but the streets in my city do not need another layer of asphalt. The last time we tried this it didn’t work out very well.
We need the government to stop kneeling before the public and unions, kneeling on the backs of Main Street and industry.
The cement industry is the latest victim of Obama’s serial job-killing spree, which spans banking, investing, construction, housing, energy, defense and automotive. At least we still have a flourishing green jobs sector that requires billions in federal subsidies.
OK. Maybe not bloomingbecause they actually require subsidies. Hence Obama’s bold call to enhance spending to support failing industries and government under the guise of creating jobs.
Obama’s top EPA killers plan to eliminate another 25,000 current jobs in the cement industry – you know, jobs employing real people who have children and current mortgages and don’t need food stamps, unemployment or subsidies – even as Obama calls for earmarking $450 billion in modern federal spending to create modern government jobs to replace senior private sector jobs it eliminated.
With plans like these, we could spend federal stimulus money indefinitely.
Get it? Or should I spell it for you again?
According to the EPA and the House Energy Committee, estimates to meet the modern cement requirements will range from $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion in 2013 in an industry that generates $6.5 billion in annual sales.
Remember the last trillion-dollar stimulus bill that failed?
It didn’t work because the government really sucks at making investment choices for the rest of us – you see Safety, social for example. All governments suck, you see Greece, France, Italy, Portugal etc. Asking the government to make investment decisions for the economy is like asking an alcoholic to curate the wine list at a rehab center.
It’s just something that common sense tells you not to do. Of course, this assumes, above all, common sense.
Maybe that’s why Obama is so bad at investing. Obama is spending money to invest in more and more things that don’t work with one hand energy, sun– while he kills jobs with regulations that don’t work in the other – see cement.
He should just try to keep both of them. Or someone could stop him.
One sign that Obama may be in more trouble within his own party than with the true opposition heading into a “should have been twelve” election cycle, Democrats and Republicans If total for 11vol an hour-long effort to stop the EPA from putting the cement industry to the test.
The House Energy Panel is currently holding hearings on a bill aimed at preserving jobs and capacity for cement producers hit by a modern regulatory mess imposed by Obama’s EPA.
The bill, known as the Sullivan Act after its lead sponsor, Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK), aims to prevent more jobs from leaving overseas. It aims to reduce the regulatory and financial burdens Obama has placed on private industry as the economy teeters on the brink of a double-secret depression.
“The president will be talking about jobs today, and I want to be clear – this bill is about jobs,” Sullivan said yesterday during hearings on the bill. “If EPA rules go into effect – nearly 20,000 jobs will be lost due to plant closures and inflated construction costs.”
Sullivan says current EPA regulations threaten to close 20 percent of the nation’s cement plants over the next two years, sending thousands of jobs permanently abroad and increasing cement and construction costs across the country.
The bill is jointly supported by Republicans and Democrats, including Reps. John Sullivan (R-OK) and Mike Ross (D-AR), as well as Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Bob Latta (R-Ohio), Greg Walden (R- OR), Joe Barton (R-TX), John Carter (R-TX), Charles Dent (R-PA), Dan Boren (D-OK), and Jason Altmire (D-PA).
After the president’s speech yesterday, Sullivan said: “I’m glad the president is putting his ideas forward, but Americans are tired of speeches and expensive stimulus bills that don’t create jobs… I hope the president will take a long look at our efforts to reign in seat crushers.” jobs under federal regulations, maximize America’s energy production, and pay down our enormous debt – if passed by the Senate and signed by the President, these basic actions will grow our economy and create American jobs right now.”
But don’t breathe any easier.
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