ISN'T IT TIME FOR SOME TRUTH?

from Jerry Buechler

Letters keep bashing President Obama over Obamacare, Benghazi, and the “socialist redistribution of wealth.” The truth is,  “Trickle-Down economics” has benefited 434 U.S. billionaires.  Thirty percent of the Bush tax cuts went to the top 1%.  The result?  The tax cuts financed factories overseas and we have 20 million unemployed or underemployed.  While the inequality boom is booming over 16 million children live in poverty.  “The promise was that when the glass is full, it would overflow, benefiting the poor.  But what happens is that when the glass is full,  it magically gets bigger- nothing ever comes out for the poor,” said, Pope Francis.

Extremists constantly beat the drum of Benghazi.  What FOX (Fact Obstructing  extremism)  omits is that Ambassador Stevens rejected offers from Army Gen. Ham for additional security support, yet under President Bush 13 consulate attacks resulted in 112 deaths including 13 Americans.  U.S. Diplomat David Foy was killed in the Karachi, Pakistan Consulate after two previous attacks there?  Where was the outcry then?   Where was the pursuit of Osama Bin Laden after that Pakistan attack?  

    

The endless attempt to repeal Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) is hypocritical.  This market-based system was originally promoted by the conservative Heritage Foundation as an alternative to universal coverage.  Its fundamental premises are individual responsibility and market competition.  Its first success occurred under Gov. Mitt Romney with  97% of the people in Massachusetts now having coverage vs 80% of Floridians. Tallahassee turned down $51 billion of our tax dollars over the next decade to cover 1 million uninsured Floridians.  5-6 people per thousand die each year due to lack of coverage.  That’s 5000 Floridians dying needlessly each year due to lack of Medicaid coverage.  Twenty-five states are implementing this part of  Obamacare, why aren’t we?  I guess we just don’t care, even though our President does.

George Iliff calls global warming nonsense even though 97% of scientists disagree with him.  Here’s information from NASA scientists:

• The heat trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases is proven. 
• Ice core samples show CO2 levels fluctuating for the last 650,000 years between 180 parts per million and 298 PPM until 1950 when we crossed 300 PPM.
• Last year we moved past 400 PPM of CO2 in our atmosphere with annual increases over 2 PPM.
• Even though the 2000s witnessed a solar output decline resulting in an unusually deep solar minimum in 2007-2009, surface temperatures continued to increase.
• 10 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the last 12 years
• Global sea levels rose 6.7 inches in the last century.  The rate of the last decade was nearly double that of the last century. 
• The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 2300 feet showing warming of 0.3 degrees F since 1969.
• The amount of CO2 absorbed by the upper layer of the ocean is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year with the acidity of the ocean increasing by about 30% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.  Reefs, a vital part of the ocean food chain, are dying from acidification.
• Glaciers, which feed rivers supplying fresh water for much of the world, are retreating in the Alps, Himalaya, Andes, Rockies, Alaska, and Africa.
• In Antarctica sea ice has been increasing by about 1% per decade, but about 100 billion tons of continental ice has been lost per year since 1993, causing the global sea level to rise by about 0.2mm a year.
• Greenland lost 60 cubic miles of ice in 2012, with a record ice melt last year.  Watch “Chasing Ice”- Netflix

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