Sen Whitehouse on Re-pub bill, & Discusses Everything that's wrong with it, which is pretty much Everything..

[NowsTheTime]

Cuts to Medicaid we have certainly heard about, but also higher energy costs to consumer, tax incentives to offshore jobs, China getting a bigger lead in clean energy, the 5 Trillion added to our debt is some of what he discussed.

[Timeflyer]

1. Brilliant, powerful explanation of the Big Bullshit Billionaire Bailout Bill: payback to dark money special interest

groups who finance their puppet politicians into power to take over US government.

[Bluepinky]

2. I like his explanation of the wasp larva taking over the bug from the inside out,

analogous to the creepy billionaires, offshoring corporations, and corrupt fossil fuel industry taking over the Republican Party from the inside and controlling it.

Great speech, it’s disturbing to hear how our energy bills will go way up because of this bill (not to mention all the other horrible things).

[ancianita]

3. Says the MVP of the Senate: "This place today seems like a crime scene. Put a yellow tape around this chamber."

"Your individual electrical cost will go up…the people behind this bill are counting on you not to know how that works… so I’m gonna tell ya how that works. There are some rules for the grid…the price setter for the whole grid is almost always a fossil fuel plant…

... that's the theory. That's how the system works. Let's see how clean energy fits in a specific area... in Texas last year, 95% of the energy on the grid came from clean energy. If this bill kills clean energy growth, which is its intention, then it's gonna kill off the power source that provided 95% of what was added to the power grid last year... the Texas grid is a standalone grid...without that solar energy each magawatt hour would have cost more than 40% more and gone right into the pockets of the fossil fuel owners... after flooding that side (Republican) with money, they're going to make a fortune off of this.... ”