These two important items are the engines to America coming out of this recession (soon to be depression). Energy is the engine to job creation and with the Cap and Trade bill we will be shipping more jobs overseas and it will be harder to get them back. Do you think India and China will care about cap and trade? How can our representatives be so blind as to think this bill will help the environment as much as it will hurt the job seeking Americans?

As of today we have about four major volcanoes going off somewhere on this earth and how are they going to cap their emissions? The fools that are backing this destructive bill to our economy will have to pay at the polls in 2010. I mention my representative Kurt Schrader and, yes, the puppet of House speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Any time my representative signs onto a bill without reading it (the stimulus bill in February) and that bill will put my children and grandchildren in debt for many years, and then signs onto the cap and trade bill, that will keep them from getting jobs in today’s economy. It tells me he is only interested in climbing the ladder of the Democratic party and not protecting the folks in his district.

Shame, shame on you Rep. Schrader. When our electric rates go from 8 cents kwh to 16 cents kwh will you be around to help the average folks pay for this? How about when gas goes up to $5 per gallon, Will you help them work it out in their budget? With great hope many people voted for you Rep. Schrader to give us workable change not for you to be a puppet with Nancy Pelosi pulling the strings.

George Abbott

Molalla