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To: grusum who wrote (37321)	1/8/2013 3:13:22 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

if he'd only take the final step and realize that only over-reaching government unconstitutional power enables most corruption. instead he blames corporations for buying government power that shouldn't be for sale in the first place. without government power they'd be harmless. I've been trying to make this point for months now. The people in power, the politicians/government, have set up a system where they are for sale. And if a corporation (or union or whatever) is to be successful, they have to play by the rules that the people in power set. This is whether they are official, unofficial, legal or illegal. I have used the Chicago traffic violation example where it was well known that the way to deal with a ticket was to bribe the cop giving you the ticket. Who is at fault? the guy bribing the cop or the corrupt law enforcement agents who have set up the corrupt system. The problem is with our politicians. And liberals want to give the politicians even more power. And the liberal corporate leaders like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and a whole host of wall street execs who support bigger government do so because they know it benefits them, not us.

To: grusum who wrote (37321)	1/8/2013 4:16:24 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 85487

Obama EPA regulations kill 15 power plants, 480 jobs in Georgia *January 8, 2013 \| 10:20 am* Georgia Power asked state regulators for permission to shut down 15 power plants yesterday, claiming new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) make the plants too expensive to run. The 15 coal-, oil- and natural gas-fired power plants currently produce 2,061 megawatts (MW) for Georgia energy consumers. Georgia Power plans to close 11 of the plants on the exact day the EPA’s new mercury regulations are set to take effect, April 16, 2015. Georgia Power will seek waivers from the EPA to keep four of the other plants open for a single year, and then shut those down too on April 16, 2016. It is unclear how the Georgia energy sector will make the 2 gigawatts up. The EPA claims its new mercury regulation will produce $140 billion in annual benefits, but only $6 million of the benefits come from actual mercury reductions. According to Dr. Anne Smith, Senior Vice President of NERA Economic Consulting’s Global Environment Group, effectively all of the EPA’s estimated benefits come from “coincidental reductions” of fine particulate matter. But fine particulate matter is already regulated by a separate section of the Clean Air Act. The plant closures will cause at least 480 fewer power plant jobs and higher electricity rates for all Georgia energy consumers. washingtonexaminer.com