I understand why my family is going to be in serious trouble

This is my families problem and I was enlightened a bit.
I read this list of consequences for the cap and trade bill (which Obama is pushing to get past this week "energy week")

after reading it I was struck with the notion that I won't be able to pay for all this increase cost. My family is living just at its means at all, if we are taxed or our bills go up at all, we will be struggling to get by.
I asked my husband - why would Obama do this to us, we are one of the lower class families, wasn't he supposed to help the lower and middle class?
the answer
yes, he wants us to NEED the government to give us hand outs to make it.
right now we make it without government involvement in our family, but when these consequences take effect, will we have a choice but accept government "help" ie welfare? probably not.

then what happens to my escape plan to leave the country, How will I save enough money to do it? I don't know.

please read below



This is going to be a painful bill for the American economy, Citizens Against Government Waste has some more details:

In reality, this cap-and-trade plan is nothing more than a hidden tax that The Heritage Foundation has estimated could increase the average American family's energy bill by $1,500 annually!

..... These higher operating costs for utilities, oil companies, and industry will ultimately trickle down to individual Americans, and you will pay an estimated 74 percent more for gasoline, 90 percent more for electricity, and 55 percent more on your natural gas bill. And that's not the end of it. You'll also pay more for every product that requires fossil fuels in its manufacture or transportation!

The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade plan will also grow the size and cost of government by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a greenhouse gas (GHG) registry, create a GHG emission allowance transfer system, and set emission allowances from 2012-2050. This army of new bureaucrats will eventually control every aspect of industrial, commercial, and individual energy use. You won't be able to tune up your car or install a grill in your back yard without federal interference ... perhaps even a costly environmental impact study. What's more, the cap-and-trade program will necessarily be ripe for political favoritism and corruption, as politicians and bureaucrats manipulate the system for favored industries.

Climatologist Chip Knappenberger has estimated that the 83 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions mandated under Waxman-Markey by 2050 will result in a drop in climate temperature of only nine-hundredths of 1 degree Fahrenheit. That's equivalent to just two years of avoided global warming.