Fri 22 Jul 2005
Just a note that here are the items that are slated for research in the coming days:
- Ethanol / Corporate Farming
- Bush Energy Policy
- Schmidt voting record (especially finacial oversite of state funds)
- Impact of overturning Roe
- “100% Pro Life” Stem-Cell, In Vitro
- Ties to Ohio Scandals
- Iraq (Schmidt’s Neocon Agenda)
- Flat Tax
Add any others that come to mind. We need to get these up fast.
We’ve already started on the estate tax.
With regards to Jean Schmidt ethanol plan, both her and Congress should be congratulated for recognizing that the United States cannot continue to rely upon foreign sources of fuel. They should also be commended for promoting an extremely effective plan to push Ohio family farmers out of business and making food more expensive for everyone.
As was stated in the first debate, Jean Schmidt welcomes using taxpayer money for ethanol production on corporate farms while destroying of the way of life that Ohio family farmers have known for generations. This amounts to paying the government to put farmers out of business while ignoring other, more sustainable, sources of renewable energy. While farmers are left to suffer the consequences of loosing their land, it will be all of us loosing as food prices rise and crops don’t end up on the table.
All this despite a recent study released by researchers at Cornell and the University of California-Berkeley in which it was found that 29% more energy goes into the production rather than use of ethanol. A long-term solution to foreign oil will not come by substituting food security with energy security–the two must coexist for America to be safe.