Where was President Barack Obama on Veteran’s Day?
Was he honoring the nation’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery?
Encouraging her soldiers in training at one of the military academies?
Issuing an executive order to force the Veterans’ Administration to respond promptly and efficiently to the needs of our wounded warriors and their surviving dependents? (I must confess a little prejudice. It took the VA almost exactly a year to approve my then-89-year-old mother’s application for widow’s benefits—my father fought on Okinawa in World War II—and another six months before her first check came.)
No.
Obama was in China.
Negotiating.
With Chinese Supreme Leader Xi Jinping.
Negotiating what? A bilateral agreement to reduce China’s threatening posture toward her peaceful neighbors, with whom the United States has alliances? That would at least have reduced the likelihood that our soldiers might be put in harm’s way defending our allies from China.
But, no.
Instead, he was negotiating an agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to curb global warming that hasn’t been happening for at least 18 years and the human contribution to which is minuscule.
An agreement that commits China to nothing while it commits the U.S. to a 28% reduction in CO2 emissions from 2005 levels by 2020, doubling the pace to which Obama committed us in 2009, which already was fulfilling his campaign promise that if he were elected electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket.”
Impact on Americans? Higher prices—for energy and everything else. Fewer jobs. Lower wages.
Impact on global climate a century from now? Indiscernibly small.
Skirting Congress again, unilaterally imposing his vision on the rest of us, the President shows little regard for democratic process.
So, as the Wall Street Journal put it, “it’s not surprising that President Obama has turned to a dictatorship for help with his anticarbon ambitions. … Meaningless global warming promises are much easier than corralling weapons of mass destruction in North Korea, or convincing Beijing to fight Islamic State, or for that matter stopping Chinese cyber-attacks on U.S. military and corporate targets. Mr. Xi must have been delighted to see a U.S. President agree to make America less economically competitive in return for rhetorical bows to doing something someday about climate change.”
It’s time for Americans to make their voices heard against Obama’s harmful climate policies.
Don’t be discouraged. You can make a difference!
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