Cap & Trade= Controlling the Resources

The Cap & Trade Bill recently narrowly passed in Congress is a farce. It's a not-too-thinly-disguised effort by the fascists to legally grab more control of our economy and of the natural resources.

While I am somewhat disenchanted with the Big Oil culture our nation has built since the 1950s (that Planned Obsolescence and Materialistic Consumerism and all), you can't change an entire national culture and new economy with a swipe of the pen and a Gaiain emphasis on "green." Especially when the new economy rising isn't better than the old one. Bureaucrats, intoxicated with power, do such silly, idiotic things.

Australian town bans bottled water sales

SYDNEY (AP) -- Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country - and possibly the world - to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.

Residents of Bundanoon cheered after their near-unanimous approval of the measure at a town meeting Wednesday. It was the second blow to Australia's beverage industry in one day: Hours earlier, the New South Wales state premier banned all state departments and agencies from buying bottled water, calling it a waste of money and natural resources.

"I have never seen 350 Australians in the same room all agreeing to something," said Jon Dee, who helped spearhead the "Bundy on Tap" campaign in Bundanoon, a town of 2,500 about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Sydney. "It's time for people to realize they're being conned by the bottled water industry."

Australians, you're being conned even more by the bureaucrats. Banning bottled water for your little county does NOTHING for "saving" the earth. It does EVERYTHING in giving bureaucrats more power; in deluding more people; in giving government more and more control over natural resources.

Mundus vult decipi.