Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) believes Harry Alford should be towing the party line and let big government do whatever the hell they want on the environment.
The Democrats have proposed a plan to produce some paper they call carbon credits and let the billionaire traders buy em up on Wall Street and make millions selling them to your electric company, which the government will require them to buy. It has been estimated that your electric bill will increase at least 25% because of this plan.
Boxer points out that Harry Alford doesn’t think and act in lock step with other “black organizations,” like the NAACP. Alford will have none of it and calls Boxer out during a Senate energy hearing for her racial attitude. Sweet!
Here’s the video….
Harry Alford accused Senator Boxer (D-CA) of playing racial politics during the EPW Committee hearing on green jobs.
I love to see anyone calling out Boxer for her condesending attitude but what is ultimately more important in this story is what the exchange started over.
Harry Alford was invited to speak about a study the NBCC did on Waxman-Markey Bill. They found that Waxman-Markey could cost 2.5 million U.S. jobs each year through 2030 and reduce earnings of American workers and raise the cost of the products they buy.
Compiled by CRA International, the analysis determines that by 2030 the Cap and Trade law would:
· reduce national GDP roughly $350 billon below the baseline level;
· cut net employment by 2.5 million jobs per year (even after accounting for new “green” jobs);
· and reduce earnings for the average U.S. worker by $390 per year.
NBCC President and CEO Harry Alford notes, “These findings add to a growing body of evidence that demonstrates cap-and-trade would make American consumers poorer and the products they buy more expensive.
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A little context wouldn’t hurt I guess.
Please follow along at the Environment & Public Works Site at:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Choose&Hearing_id=61c08454-802a-23ad-494a-4ff5e60d89d5
19:11 (minutes)- Boxer (misnomer) states emphatically that “we have all the facts” despite the claim that the panel was for the purpose of open debate on a very important matter.
21:13 – Boxer says that she’ll give 5 minutes for everyone to speak but contests her colleague of doing the same in the past. (with a bit of salty attitude and a gut check)
26:55- Boxer condescendingly comments that the minority leader of the committee actually used only 5 minutes in his intro. (upper cut)
27:19- Senator Carper (Boxer supporter) gives his credentials as a way to justify is comments on the topic, which includes having military experience. Later Sen. Carper finds it useful to comment that he is the only one who seems to quote Einstein. (stick and duck)
27:45- Senator Carper implies that taxpayers need to be fooled into pay more taxes. (hit below the belt, which the ref doesn’t see.)
33:00- Sen. Barrasso submits quotes from sources that are relevant to the topic but that contradict what Boxer claims to be facts. (one two combo.)
35:30- Boxer takes time out to argue Sen. Barrasso sources by submitting her own sources. (razor blade in the glove trick.)
39:20- Boxer turns her back on Sen. Bond to talk to aide. Apparently, since Sen. Bond doesn’t agree with Boxer there is no need to listen. (left-right combo)
41:30- Sen. Whitehouse (Boxer supporter) gives salty comments to evidences submitted by Sen. Bond. (stick and jab)
55:55- Panelist Doerr (Boxer pal and fundraiser) suggests that all the energy that is consumed ($2 trillion by his figures) in the U.S. should not be purchased from overseas. Doerr thinks that by creating the technology domestically we can spend the money at home and become the global energy leader. No one attempts to mention the close relationship that Doerr has with SF Bay based company with Boxer. (thumb in eye)
59:10- Panelist Doerr (Boxer pal and fundraiser) suggests that gov’mint hasn’t given a market signal for consumers to adopt clean energy. Never mind the fact that government never created market signals except when it comes to taxes, something most individual consumers can’t get around. (pow, pow, wham to the chest)
59:40- Panelist Doerr (Boxer pal and fundraiser) says that Cap and Trade by the gov’mint on carbon is supposed to be the market signal to get consumers to change habits. Ignoring the fact that high prices and low price change habits in every instance. (greased glove to the left eye)
75:00- Panelist Alford responds that any legislation should account for the costs as well as the benefits. Seems like basic logic to me. (squarely hits the right eye of opponent)
75:13-Panelist Alford states that we need to be cautious of legislation that has more authors than readers. (Bammm!!!! Opponent starts to stumble)
78:10- Before starting the official open debate with 7 minute sessions, Boxer says that Panelist Alford is wrong about his study. Boxer goes on to “suggest” that Panelist Alford is a gloom-and-doomer and people who aren’t optimist have been proven wrong time and again. Boxer uses the Bush strategy of “either you with us or your against us.” Boxer then applies the “don’t you agree” question to her buddy Panelist Doerr. (Gufffff!!!! Boxer’s opponent is up against the ropes)
88:00- Boxer finally ends her session of comment using 10 minutes of time which she was adamant about other using either 5 or 7 minutes and not to exceed that time. (a punch added after the end of the round; somehow the ref didn’t see it again.)
89:02- Senator Inhofe points out that China is already implementing “clean energy” strategies and “clean jobs” without implementing a “cap and trade” policy to accomplish the goal. (Senator Boxer is stunned with a haymaker.)
95:04- Senator Inhofe says that the Waxman-Markey bill is a jobs bill because the EPA administrator Mrs. Jackson said that the passage of the bill would not materially impact carbon emission at all [see webcast at minutes 107:00 to 109.21] http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Choose&Hearing_id=36d4e3a5-802a-23ad-46dc-18337864995f
99:35- Begins the end of Senator Boxer’s career in the ring when Panelist Alford sets the record straight and wins the match with a KO.
Harry in 10 minutes , did than more for white black relationships than many other well intended politicians have done in years.
The only way to wipe out racism is to tell it like it is.( be honest without all of the fluff ) I would like to contribute to his political fund.
Yep.. I am a 58 year old white over weight southerner. I am not a white dude with a conscious probelm, I am a prioblem solver like Harry.
Go Harry !
Andy
Love that Harry Alford. Not petty, not snickering… Intelligent and sincere and tells it like it is. Barbara Boxer didn’t tell HIM not to call her “ma’am” like she did when she dressed down and disrespected the General did she?”.
What a b**ch!
I am glad that Harry Alford stood up to Barbara Boxer. She needs to go. She is self absorbed and self serving. She cares not about the welfare of the American public. She is a big part of the problem in Washington and needs to be replaced before we get any real change for the good of our future. I am happy that Mr. Alford did not let her use him as her political pawn. Good for you Harry. Good for you.
Great analogy Takahashi Bento! Loved it.
Mr. Alford, glad to hear someone other than Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton. You are the man that stood up to a liberal witch that is trying to keep the black american in their place, just as the Dem’s always have. They are trying to make us all slaves to the government, they steal enough of my money as it is. Now they are lying big time about this cap and con. This bill, plus health care is going to bankrupt this country.
I want to live in a free country not a third world nation. Mr. Alford you have my thanks as I have not heard anyone else stick it to Barbara Boxer like this before. She was racist and condesending and she thinks that your color makes you stupid. I say God Bless this nation, and I hope and pray that more pple like you will stand your ground and tell it like it is.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!
I’m White and Love you Mr. Alford. Thanks you for being a voice of reason. I did not vote for OBAMA, because I’m a racist. But I’d vote for you in a heartbeat.