And, an ignorant Obama supports this. The main goal of the much-touted, Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, scheduled to be held in Brazil from June 20-23, and which Obama Administration officials have supported, is to make dramatic and enormously expensive changes in the way that the world does nearly everythingâor, as one of the documents puts it, "a fundamental shift in the way we think and act." Among the proposals on how the âchallenges can and must be addressed,â according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: --More than $2.1 trillion a year in wealth transfers from rich countries to poorer ones, in the name of fostering âgreen infrastructure, â âclimate adaptationâ and other âgreen economyâ measures. --New carbon taxes for industrialized countries that could cost about $250 billion a year, or 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product, by 2020. Other environmental taxes are mentioned, but not specified. --Further unspecified price hikes that extend beyond fossil fuels to anything derived from agriculture, fisheries, forestry, or other kinds of land and water use, all of which would be radically reorganized. These cost changes would âcontribute to a more level playing field between established, 'brown' technologies and newer, greener ones." -- Major global social spending programs, including a "social protection floor" and "social safety nets" for the world's most vulnerable social groups for reasons of âequity.â --Even more social benefits for those displaced by the green economy revolutionâincluding those put out of work in undesirable fossil fuel industries. The benefits, called âinvestments,â would include âaccess to nutritious food, health services, education, training and retraining, and unemployment benefits." --A guarantee that if those sweeping benefits werenât enough, more would be granted. As one of the U.N. documents puts it: âAny adverse effects of changes in prices of goods and services vital to the welfare of vulnerable groups must be compensated for and new livelihood opportunities provided." http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/0...es-transfers-and-price-hikes/?test=latestnews
Not to mention a bunch of ignorant liberals right here in ET. I wonder what Odumbo and his sheeple plan on paying these taxes with? Aren't we already $16 Trillion in debt?