ThinkProgress has the scoop, but the analysis was done by the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan group. This is the main message that must sink in with most Americans. If you do not make over $250,000 per year (which is most of us), you will be better off with Barack Obama as President.  Maybe the most telling example of these bold-faced lies is the exposure of John McCain’s record on economic reform, which is absolutely ZERO according to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank.

It’s a pretty sad state of affairs for Republicans when even Megyn Kelly of Fox News is forced to call the McCain campaign out on their typical “he’ll raise your taxes” lies. Alan Greenspan even admits the country cannot afford the $3.3 trillion in tax cuts proposed by Sen. McCain without a corresponding cut in government spending. McCain claims that earmark reductions will help finance the cuts, but this is baseless at best. CNN says of McCain’s tax proposals that “high-income taxpayers would benefit more than everyone else” while Obama’s would favor “in terms of reducing their taxes as a percentage of after-tax income - are in the lowest income groups”.  Even wealthy Americans should understand that when the middle class has more to spend, they will have more potential to capitalize.

Wow!  After two long weeks of great reading and poll shifting the dust is finally starting to settle and the facts are beginning to seep into the consciousness of average Americans.  It’s been a wild ride, but the race has only begun. Here’s my two-week roundup of stories and events that caught my attention.  Certainly it isn’t everything over the last two weeks, so updates may follow.  I also will try and exclude topics I’ve already discussed at length in other posts.

There is a great post up at Mudflats right now (actually quite a few great posts) about Sarah Palin from the Alaskan politician’s perspective.  The guest poster, Les Gara, is the kind of politician I wish I could support in my own home district.  His examples are clear and his contentions are substantiated.  The post is well worth the read, as is anything from Mudflats.  Here’s my highlight:

Did I mention the personal attacks against our local public officials only started after Sen. McCain sent his flacks up to our small state on August 29?  They came with a mission to make America believe a Republican-initiated investigation, started with a unanimous committee vote of 8 Republicans and 4 Democrats, was a “partisan” plot.  That’s only a tough sell if people know the facts.

You know there are problems with the economy when even Alan Greenspan says this is the worst economy he’s ever seen. What’s even more striking is that Greenspan goes further to say that America could not afford Senator McCain’s tax proposals. Unless you’re a complete atomaton, the typical argument that Democrats will “raise your taxes” while Republicans fight for lower taxes will simply not fly this year. McCain has frequently stated he can clean up the budget by cutting earmark spending, but cutting pork alone will not come close to balancing the budget. Eliminating the needless bloodshed and drain of resources that is the Iraq War would certainly be a bigger step toward getting spending under control.  

One of the surprising, yet inspiring, stories from the campaign trail was the turnout at the “Alaska Women Reject Palin” rally in Anchorage, Alaska over the weekend. The photos alone give me hope for our political process.  Many are calling this the largest protest rally in Alaska’s history.  Below is my favorite photo/sign from the rally.

Stories about Sarah Palin’s affinity toward crony hiring practices became evident over the weekend as well. Once elected to public office, she fired professionals and hired former classmates from Wasilla High School. She went a step further to trim down her own duties as Mayor, passing the buck on responsibility while accepting all the credit.  If that alone doesn’t scream of “politics as usual” and a repeat of the Bush-Cheney administration, I don’t know what would actually get that message across.  Willed ignorance seems to run rampant in this country.  

Then there was the barrage of all-out lies from the McCain campaign, beginning with “Thanks, but no thanks” and continuing through a few ads that were only on TV for a short period of time but generated a lot of buzz in the media and blogosphere.  This is not only disheartening, but also disturbing.  The Associated Press and many other trusted news sources have called shenanigans on the McCain lies and admit this is “testing voters”.  I really hope we pass this test, diligence is patriotism.

Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri sets the story straight on Sarah Palin’s record with earmarks, pointing out that she asked for nearly $750 million in federal funds in her two years as Governor of Alaska.  To call Gov. Palin an earmark reformer is to call Nick Nolte a model citizen.  Here’s a link to the ThinkProgress story, and the video is below. The argument given by Carly Fiorina is also a far cry from the early arguments that she’s here to eradicate the earmark completely, now she thinks we simply “must ask for less of them.”  And just to put things into perspective in terms of expertise, here’s a reminder of Carly Fiorina’s effectiveness at Hewlett-Packard.

You’ve no doubt heard about the money Palin took from the state to live at home, if not from the news then from Weekend Update on SNL.  What you may not have heard about are the questions surrounding whether or not Gov. Palin actually paid taxes on that income.  It’s interesting to see Republicans try to pose one of the most money-hungry state officials as the leader in reform.  If that’s reform, I’m filthy rich.

Senator McCain keeps repeating how he’s enjoyed introducing Palin to the American people, and how he can’t wait to introduce her to Washington. On the campaign trail, this comment often follows his declaration of a willingness to reach across party lines. It makes me recall the recent grilling McCain faced on The View about exactly how she’ll reform Washington.  McCain said just today at a town hall meeting in Orlando “wait ’til the pork-barrelers and the earmark spenders meet her”.  This was laughable in the sense that most of Washington already knows her well, after she requested (and received) the largest per capita earmark spending in the nation over the last two years. Someone tell Senator McCain that he won’t get to introduce her, he’ll simply be the one scheduling the reunion.

One of the best things the primary season gave us was the triumphant return of Saturday Night Live to the top of the satire game.  Some of the material provided by the Democratic Primary would hold up against any former cast of SNL, which is something I never thought I’d be able to say again about the show. This Saturday’s show with Michael Phelps hosting did not disappoint and certainly got off to a hot start. This was also the highest-rated premiere of SNL in six years, according to MSNBC. Here’s the clip.

The rumor that was most swiftly debunked about the extent of Sarah Palin’s “list of books to ban”, which did not exist.  We do know now that the book which provoked the conversation with the librarian about removing books from the shelves.  The book is called Daddy’s Roommate and is geared toward helping children with homosexual parents better understand the situation.  Salon.com also has information on a Baptist pastor who was also targeted by Palin’s effort to ban books. After being encouraged to read the book for herself, Palin refused, instead favoring the removal of the book.  The story played out and the librarian ultimately kept her job, but the question itself is scary to anyone who loves the 1st Amendment.

Just as an example of how widespread the criticism is for recent false ads coming out of the McCain campaign, here are some links, and keep in mind the actual firestorm only began over the weekend.  The Turd Blossom, Karl Rove himself says the recent McCain ads have “gone too far”.  FactCheck.org (a non-partisan group) found lies about Senator Obama’s tax plans. Jon Taplin has a video and some audio clips, but Gordon brings the highlight of the post in the comments section — just take a look at the 9th commandment (the 8th if you’re Catholic). Then there’s this week’s Sunday New York Times, which was ultimately a collection of facts correcting the lies of the McCain camp.  

Today, Carly Fiorina spoke with Andrea Mitchell and explained away the lobbyist issue by saying the McCain campaign has the most strict rules for conflicts of interest.  I wonder if those rules were applied as a top McCain adviser was plucked by the Bush Administration to oversee the (now government run) Freddie Mac? I wonder if Randy Scheunemann’s associations with Georgia have been a conflict of interest as the McCain campaign beats the Cold War 2 war drum? Has that conflict of interest been “strictly regulated” when Charlie Black pushes for a Columbian Free Trade Agreement? The same Columbia where simply wanting to unionize will cause your family to make final arrangements. Sounds like one hell of an agreement to me. Later in the same hour Andrea Mitchell called shenanigans on a McCain campaign spokesman who tried to claim the recent McCain ads are “documentedly true”. That’s the kind of think Americans need to see from our journalists, don’t be biased, but don’t be fooled. Andrea has certainly learned something from her time spent near the late great Tim Russert.

Monday morning also brought the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the buyout of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America. Of course, the campaigns were both asked about the situation, and Senator McCain had to re-state that he thinks the fundamentals of our economy are strong. Chris Matthews pointed out on Hardball today that President Herbert Hoover said the same thing about the economy as we sank into the Great Depression. McCain says that a lack of regulation is to blame. He fails to point out that one of his own campaign advisers, Phil Gramm (of “we’ve become a nation of whiners” fame) helped cause much of the current turmoil in the marketplace. That lack of regulation did not exist just 8 short years ago. Senator Obama makes a great observation, saying that this situation is in year 8 of President Bush’s administration, which has taken a toll on our entire economy. 

Finally I must point out that the McCain campaign is applying pressure on Ron Paul of Texas to support the Republican ticket. Ron Paul has been responsible for much of the mobilization of libertarians and constitutionalists who are fed up with the reckless Bush Administration. It’s no wonder he refuses to support the McCain campaign, which looks to be equal to or worse than Bush-Cheney. I’ll close the post with a couple of questions I (would) have for Senator McCain.

On what specific issues have you bucked your own party, and where do you stand on these issues today?

In your first 100 days in office, what specific reforms would you push and how will they positively affect the American people?

At least that was who she seemed to focus on above all else. I’ve never seen someone so unprepared for an interview, let alone the office of the Vice President. This quote pretty much sums up her entire interview.

“We must not, Charlie, blink, Charlie, because, Charlie, as I’ve said, Charlie, before, John McCain has said, Charlie, that — and remember here, Charlie, we’re talking about John McCain, Charlie, who, Charlie, is John McCain and I won’t be blinking, Charlie.”

Maureen Dowd from the New York Times has a sharp op-ed piece on the subject. In fact, the entire Sunday NY Times this week looks to be a great read. Sarah Palin is what she is at this point. She reminds enough people of George W. Bush that I can place stock in the intelligence and learning capacity of average Americans to make a better decision in this election.

The Public Safety Commissioner who was fired by Palin is challenging her interview with Charlie Gibson, saying she lied to ABC.  What else is new?  How many times have we heard her repeat the bold lie that she said “Thanks, but no thanks” for the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’?

Here’s the equivalent of that lie in your daily life.  You have a few $1 bills in your hand and offer Sarah Palin a soda, you may say “Hey, I’m hitting up the machine, would you like a sodapop?”  Then Sarah responds “Thanks, but no thanks.”  Then she proceeds to snatch a dollar out of your hands, since you did offer a soda.  She still wants the value of your offer but will decide on her own what to do with the money.  If someone did this to you at work, how would you react?

Here’s the full transcript, which indicates where the interview was edited. I wonder when (if at all) her next interview will be?

Lobbyists running the McCain campaign:
Rick Davis
Steve Schmidt
Mark Buse
Charlie Black
Randy Scheunemann

More on the hypocrisy:
The Anti-Lobbyist, Advised by Lobbyists
McCain’s Lobbyist Friends Rally ‘Round Their Man
FactCheck: McCain-lobbyist connections
John McCain: Campaign Lobbyist-in-Chief

I had a vision for this post having a large collection of pictures and data at some point, apparently someone has beat me to the punch. This is a great site on McCain’s lobbyists, and another.

All of this recent media buzz over this state and the McCain campaign’s utterly misguided response to it should be absolutely sickening to any American who actually cares about their own future.  95% of Americans have more to lose than we already have over the last 8 years and John McCain insists on turning every day’s politics into an All-American episode of the Jerry Springer show.  His own daughter can admit she’s heard McCain himself use the phrase “lipstick on a pig” to describe the same old thing in disguise, but the surrogate and daughter of a maverick liar who believes “no one knows what war is like other than my family.  Period.”

It didn’t take much time looking to find at least once in 1993 when, referring to Hillary Clinton (specifically her health care proposal) with the same response.  I hope he had the same level of shock at his own “disgusting” remarks back when he used the common phrase.  Unless, of course, he actually understands what the phrase means and then he would shut up about the Obama campaign.  Senator McCain, when it comes to treatment of women, YOU DO NOT HAVE ROOM TO SPEAK.

McCain should know this criticism, and its distance from a gender-based attack.  Elizabeth Edwards described John McCain’s health care proposal in the exact same way to the Columbia Journalism Review in April of this year.  And just for good measure, another instance of John McCain referring to Hillary Clinton using the same language.  I’d love to see how people try to say “this is different”, but of course the mainstream media have done their usual tactless job in coverage.

“This is an incredibly humble statement, a statement that this campaign stands by 100%, and a sentiment that any religious American will share — the hope that our country’s actions are indeed righteous,” a campaign spokesman, Michael Goldfarb, said.

What I can’t understand about some people with regard to the Iraq War is why they believe they can “pray it Righteous”. You can’t march in to a foreign country — invade it, if you will — and have over 400,000 civilian Iraqi deaths while perfectly executing “God’s plan”. When you make orphans and widows by the thousand, you only create more animosity and make us less safe. If the French had stayed in America after the Revolutionary War and started crafting and shaping our government, spying on the Framers — how would we have reacted?

Read ‘The War Prayer’ by Mark Twain and THINK! We can’t win an occupation and we shouldn’t even argue over an unjust war. You can’t just pray your war is righteous and have it be so, and “turn the other cheek” has never been so betrayed. I guess Jesus is just a quotation of convenience for some religious war hawks.

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Paul F. Tompkins with an honest message for America. 

I just stumbled upon a post that got the first belly laugh of the day out of me. I thought I’d post a link and quote my favorite example from the comments section. Check it out here.

If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.

If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you’ve got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.

My thoughts exactly.

Tonight at the RNC Senator Lindsey Graham said that future generations will use the example set by General Petraeus.   I’m just curious how he knows this.  Unless, of course, Senator McCain becomes President McCain and gets his way in ensuring we stay in Iraq for 100 years.  It’s not a defeatist who wants to end a war, and those who hung a “Mission Accomplished” banner shouldn’t be resisting the homecoming.

President Reagan once said, as brilliantly as it was transparent, “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”  He was right in a sense, and much more accurate about something else:  war.  What is the purpose of a war if not “to end all wars”?  Would we want to “set an example” for future generations in a way that makes them itch to fight and prove their meddle?  Senator Graham has always been a sycophant, but his comments tonight are perpetuating ignorance by masquerading as an “inspiring” speech.  I’m not saying respect those who serve, and honor their sacrifice and service.  It’s just at some point we’ve got to stop placing ourselves in history relative to the wars around us.

I am particularly enjoying the great journalism going on over at ThinkProgress.  The entire rack is great right now, and I’m pretty lacking on extra opinion and analysis after watching John McCain’s acceptance speech.  I’ll say the speech was impressive, but still won’t help 95% of Americans.  Mostly I don’t have any faith that John McCain would actually be in charge for four years, under a variety of circumstances, and I see Sarah Palin as George W. Bush on steroids.

• First we have her support of the Road to Nowhere, on top of the Bridge to Nowhere she loves to lie about.
• Then we get acquainted with the inadequately staffed Alaska National Guard, thanks Governor Palin for stretching your resume.  We knew you didn’t ‘lead’ anyone, but you probably could have assisted.
• The sharp responses from community organizers and related organizations to Sarah Palin’s morally repugnant attack was an especially great piece.  I was very curious to see how this group responded, considering they are responsible for nearly every major positive change in the history of our nation.  There are as many people in the community Barack Obama was organizing as Wasilla, and more in Chicago than Alaska.
• We see more of the religious right flip-flopping (as they must) to support Palin after claiming leaving the home was “in pursuit of false hopes and fading illusions.”
• There is yet another Republican calling Barack Obama “uppity” and “elite”.  Again, it is the most pathetic of all attacks.  If you live near Representative Westmoreland, please do what I’d do.
• Mitt Romney, a humble man who just happens to own four homes takes a shot at Al Gore for a non-existent private jet.  Research Mitt, it’s your friend.
• It’s always nice to see the McCain advisors making things up as a defense to their candidate’s lack of interest in the middle class.  It’s the one area where they can be consistent.
• The United Steelworker’s Union president has asked Sarah Palin to stop using her husband’s association as a reason to support her.  She’s in no way prepared to address union interests, especially backing Mr. Anti-Union himself.
• Our old buddy John Hagee once believed stay at home dads were “worse than infidels”, which is interesting considering he’s endorsed a candidate who carries a stay at home dad in the gaggle. 
• And the absolute gem of the RNC TV barrage:  Jon Stewart being brilliant.

But it certainly isn’t leadership — he gave us George W Bush. It certainly isn’t analysis — he tries to pin Barack Obama as a “country club elite”. Are you kidding me? Lately I keep hearing about how Governor Palin is such a strong character and people will really rally behind her life story and empathize with her struggles. I’m sure life is rough for a beauty queen who marries her high school sweetheart. It must not have been a walk in the park to have your parents stay together and to be raised by both of them.

So how does Turd Blossom approach this weak candidate who could likely assume the mantle of President at some point? He shows his expertise on flip-flopping.

So the former Mayor of the 105th largest city is not qualified to be VP, but the former Mayor of a town that’s not even among the 10 largest in her state is qualified? Her state being the 47th most populated in the union. You know you’re not coming from a powerhouse if you are competing with Montana in terms of population. Nice “guess” there on the size of Wasilla for Karl, although it certainly is not the 2nd largest in the state.

But what about the demographics of that town she ran? Surely it’s a microcosm of America and the types of people you’d find in the lower 48. No?

As of the census of 2000 the racial makeup of the city was 85.46% White, 0.59% Black or African American, 5.25% Native American, 1.32% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 1.32% from other races, and 5.94% from two or more races. 3.68% of the population were Hispanic or Latino. -Source

Granted, the wiki can lie… but it’s not like Alaska is like the rest of America. I mean, hear what her secessionist buddies have to say.

The “experience” breakdown also seems to keep being brought up, even though it’s loose on both sides. Voters don’t care as much about experience as we do about ideas. But if we were hiring someone for a job face to face (which we are on a larger scale) we’d maybe consider hiring the Harvard trained lawyer who served the Community First (a community in the country) over the journalism major from the University of Idaho. Unless you just want a hot secretary, then I completely understand.

Here is a 65-minute video of Senator Obama speaking at Google, to the tech industry. I know it’s a long video, but it’s worth the watch if you’re curious to know more about the potential of technology and the internet in the next administration.

John McCain never uses the internet — or computers for that matter. He’s admitted his lack of techno-savvy publicly. It’s no surprise that he treats it like an enemy or something to be controlled. Back in 2006, he supported fines for blogs that allow open comments. Making MySpace work to prevent sexual predators from using their site is perfectly legitimate, but there is absolutely no legal concern about commenters on blogs. It’s a spurious claim at best, and Orwellian at worst.

More links:  McCain - OnTheIssues.org, Obama - OnTheIssues.org, Mother Jones on McCain’s Technology Policy, JohnMcCain.com, BarackObama.com.

Concerning John McCain’s official site and his stance on technology, he seems to miss the idea that technology needs a clear vision.  Vague terms and generalizations are not going to get the job done.  Most of his contentions are roundabout Republican talking points.  ”John McCain will not tax new innovation by keeping capital gains taxes low.”  That’s great John, but capital gains doesn’t only affect technology and innovations.  And it’s not the only way to encourage innovation.  Someone should introduce Senator McCain to the X-Prize.

Senator Obama’s technology stance is very exciting for me, not because I’m in the tank but because government transparency is something I’ve advocated and wanted for a long time.  Obama understands that technology is a great way to improve government in general.  If everything the government did were available on Google, would they get away with wasting our money?  As a techie, I am really interested in an Obama administration.

Or at least he must, considering he’s picked a VP nominee who is the polar opposite of Romney in everyway. Yes they are both deeply religious, but any cursory study of the current LDS church compared with examples from Palin’s “Preachergate” issue shows they approach their faith in public life very differently.

Mitt Romney seemed to at least feign interest in living by the religious doctrine he supports by actually acting as if he is his brother’s keeper. He worked with Ted Kennedy to ensure everyone in Massachusetts has access to health care, as should be the standard everywhere. Romney was instrumental in making the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City go off without a hitch. He’s also lead major companies to record profits, rather than leaving them worse-off than before he arrived.

Now comes news that Sarah Palin couldn’t even keep a car wash in business. Alaska doesn’t seem to be the greatest place to try a car wash business, but she must have seen a market I do not. Either way, failure due to bad business practice or just not having a market she isn’t proving her business savvy. Not that business savvy and a grasp of the economy go hand-in-hand, but it’s definitely not a good indicator for the “help” on a ticket that needs to comfort people economically.

It’s now Wednesday and I have already said, by Saturday she’ll be off the ticket. At this point I am guessing tonight is the night or maybe it won’t happen at all. Personally, as someone who doesn’t want to see John McCain near any red buttons I’d rather she stay on the ticket. She’s an albatross. We’ve found someone with the ruthlessness and shrewdness of Senator McCain without the military and service record. All it does is allow for more attacks on that line of thinking, without the natural retort of “he was a P.O.W.”

Apparently Governor Palin has been involved in the Alaskan Independence Party as recently as March of 2008. They talk about secession and being Alaskans not Americans. I think maybe she’s on to something, she should be honest about her desires to secede, because if she’s successful she can actually run for President of Alaska. I’m sure that 80% approval rating as Governor will translate to the same support for her new fascist dictatorship.

An excellent diary over at the DailyKos details some of the new VP nominee’s ideas on the First Amendment. Not only does she have no concept of history in general but she clearly has even less understanding of the Framers’ intent. Banning books is about the closest anyone can come to outright declaring their desire to control thought.

My bet: Sarah Palin resigns from the ticket by this Saturday, citing her family and a need to be a good mother/grandmother. The McCain campaign will act shocked and as if they aren’t glad to get rid of this albatross, but ultimately will name Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal as her replacement. History will still be at stake, as Gov. Jindal’s parents are Indian immigrants. He’s a natural choice, considering the profile of Hurricane Gustav and the great job Jindal has done handling the situation.

Or was this deliberate? Is she John McCain’s Harriet Myers? Someone abrasive who makes it easier to swallow McCain/Lieberman or perhaps even McCain/Romney.

I thought I’d link this Sarah Palin Digest here, it’s a great place to see everything we know about this “reformer”. Props to ThinkProgress for the great reporting.

What counts as “fighting FOR America” -

1) Getting shot down in a foreign land that was never capable of - nor intent on - attacking American soil -

OR -

2) Passing on wealth to serve a community affected by a war on the middle class, right here in America?

Just a question… Or could it possibly have something to do with keeping Alaskans safe from your ex-brother-in-law? Maybe having never had the gumption to make a judgement on Iraq is the way to support those in harm’s way?

I realized it was the day of the text that will surely be read around the world and decided to post something short just to get back into the swing of writing after a long hiatus. Here we go:

It’s pretty pathetic when you’re not even able to understand a question and think on your feet enough to react to information that insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control. Such is the degradation of a once great public official.

Senator McCain seems to believe he’ll safely and quickly bring gas and fuel prices down by drilling off the coast of Florida.

Safety: The technology is safer, but safer and safe are not the same thing. There were over 80 reported spills during Hurricane Katrina. This is like thinking your clothes are still clean if you only got a little barbecue sauce on them.

Economy: It will take anywhere from 10 to 30 years to actually see any economic benefit or increase in supply of oil. You will see nothing from this. Oil companies will.

This explains why today President Bush announces his support for opening the same areas to drilling. After leaving office, you can bet your ass George Bush will again be soaked in Big Oil. His Dick, Cheney too.

What about this: There are tons of land-based drilling contracts that oil companies are not acting upon. It’s cheaper, safer and easier to drill on land. But if those three factors are true of the process, then the prices and profits are not nearly as high. They don’t drill until the prices are high. The solution is to use other sources. Don’t think so much of gas pricing for cars just yet, think of all the other sources we can replace. To ease the demand on gasoline but also lower the costs of other sources of energy first. When other sources are cheaper than oil, we’ll see people switch with no public policy necessary.

Every public building rooftop in sunny America should be covered in photovoltaic cells, allowing infrastructure to become our power plants. A similar experiment in Los Angeles actually was able to power nearly 150,000 homes and will begin new projects to power more. This doesn’t immediately address gas prices, but energy becomes cheaper, and conversion research carries a stronger incentive.

This is just a farce to help our current administration stay rich and above-the-law after leaving office. Reject this nonsense, the American people — not oil companies — solve our own problems.

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