Obama Lies to the Middle Class

Here's the video from NeverFindOut.org: "Senator Obama, Why Are You Lying to the Middle Class"?

Also, there's yet another tape floating around today, from earlier this year, where Barack Obama states he'll bankrupt companies that don't buy into his cap-and-trade energy policy (audio here):

Let me sort of describe my overall policy.

What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there.

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It's just that it will bankrupt them."

Obama's comprehensive energy plan is laid out at the campaign's website, "Barack Obama and Joe Biden: New Energy for America."

The proposal calls for an "economy-wide" cap-and-trade program, although no statistics are provided on the number of companies that will be bankrupted, or the number of Americans who will lose their jobs.

As Rick Moran asks:

Has there ever been a presidential candidate who looked forward to the prospect of destroying someone’s life’s work and costing thousands of people their jobs?

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