Opinion


Cost Of The Kyoto Treat

Saturday, December 01, 2007

In case you missed it, since most media has not published this story, this is why I believe the global warming is a hoax just to get money out of us and to increase the nanny state. It was reported by Bloomberg News that Japan, Spain and Italy will miss their emissions goals that they agreed to meet under the Kyoto Treaty. They will face fines close to $33 billion.

Why have they failed to meet their goals? It is because their economies grew more than they expected and they did not spend the money to upgrade their industrial plants to emit less emissions.



So because the economy grew and the people received more money in their pockets, they will now pass more taxes to their citizens. This is what this whole process is all about. The UN will get more money they did not earn and the people in those countries will suffer because they did what any country should do, they prospered.

Another story in the AP says we should pay the UN $86 billion by 2015 to help the poor affected by global warming. We are the evil one who is causing the world to end even though China is about to overtake us in this area. India is coming up strong and the Arab countries, flush with oil money, are growing big time. But no one writes stories that these countries should pay billions to the world.

The point is that this movement is not save the world, but is to take money from us and to teach us we are wrong. We need to be put down so someone else can be first. Our country supports the world every day with our giving, our military, and by the resource of our free people.

Everyone needs to realize what this is all about.

Bruce Caldwll
Signal Mountain


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