"Households that get their power from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power could see their electric bills go up between 8.8% and 28.4%, depending on where they live and how much energy they use, under a plan unveiled Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Appearing with labor and environmental leaders, Villaraigosa said the proposed increases would ensure that the DWP meets his goal of securing 20% of its energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by Dec. 31.
The increased revenue would help pay for new environmental initiatives, including more aggressive conservation programs and a solar initiative designed to create 16,000 jobs.
...Businesses would see increases in the average bill ranging from 20% to 26%. Any increase would become less steep, however, once ratepayers adopt conservation measures or find ways to install solar panels and sell the excess power to the DWP, mayoral aides said.
...One union leader said residents would support the increases once they knew how the money would be spent.
"When they see that there is a clear-cut plan to do what we need to do in this city -- which is to be more green, to create jobs -- then I think that most people . . . are willing to go along with that," said Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the L.A. County Federation of Labor."
LA Times
"Just look at Spain: According to a study released in 2009, for every “green job” created with government money over the last eight years 2.2 regular jobs were lost, and only 1 in 10 of the newly created green jobs became a permanent job."
Epoch Times
LA is going to institute a green plan with the backing of the unions and the environmentalists. It will cause electric bills to rise by as much as 28.4%, driving up the cost to both businesses and individual households. This will cause businesses to close or move and will cause people that would normally spend their money elsewhere, thus supporting other jobs, to spend it on electricity.
Why would the unions support this? It seems counterintuitive in that the affect of this legislation will be most keenly felt by the working people. Isn't that the group that the unions claim to support?
If we take the numbers from Spain, a country that has bought into the green argument, we find that for every green job created 2.2 traditional jobs are lost (Jaun DeMariana). I broke out the abacus and did the math; if LA's green initiatives creates 16,000 green jobs 35,200 traditional jobs will be lost. That is a net loss of 19,200 jobs.
So why would the unions back this? I've got a theory. Most of the green jobs will be created through the government; either directly in administration and enforcement or by mandates to the private sector. These jobs will either be created in union environments, such as the government, or will require adherence to the "prevailing wage", a code word for unions. The 19,000 plus jobs that will be lost in the private sector will be mostly non-union jobs.
This isn't about the environment. This is about union power and control. And "social justice".
From the website of Los Angeles County Federation of Labor:
Community and Social Justice
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, is proud to be an active member in our local communities. The Federation is honored to work with several community-based organizations who have spent years dedicated to grassroots empowerment and social justice in L.A. County.
Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC)
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE)
Coalition for Economic Survival
Coalition LA
Community Coalition
Friends of Labor
Hermandad Mexicana
Industrial Areas Foundation / One L.A.
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Labor Center
Liberty Hill Foundation
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
SCOPE / AGENDA
Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles (SCLC)
Strengthening Our Lives (SOL)
UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
In the name of "social justice" this union will destroy the livelihood of thousands. The end justifies the means. No sacrifice is too great to achieve the perfection of man through a Socialist Utopia. And the government, believing it can control this evil gets in bed with the enemy of the people that it claims to serve.
Our politicians don't serve us though, do they? They have used their power to establish their kingdoms. They have become Princes and Kings, raising walls of stone around the government of the people to protect their own power. The unions serve as their mercenary armies, repelling the desires of the people. In the end, this will be their undoing, for as Machiavelli warned:
"A PRINCE must defend his state with either his own subjects or mercenaries, or auxiliaries. Mercenaries are utterly untrustworthy; if their captain be not an able man the prince will probably be ruined, whereas if he be an able man he will be seeking a goal of his own. This has been perpetually exemplified among the cities and states of Italy which have sought to maintain themselves by taking foreigners into their pay."
The unions are working with the Communist/Progressives to create a "New World Order". Our politicians have worked with them because the unions have offered them support through campaign financing, buying their loyalty. The politicians have. like all addicts, become dependent on union money, unable to make independent decisions for fear that their drug of choice will be taken from them. The unions are now using public monies to achieve their ends. The good and the will of the people be damned. The mercenaries have removed the Prince from power and taken hold of the throne for themselves.
We've lost so many battles at the local level that we are about to lose the war at the national level. We need to flank our attackers and hit them in the rear. We need to take back our government, starting at the city, working up to the county and eventually the state.
The Tenth Amendment is the answer:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
We must reestablish our base of operation at the state level. If the states refuse to enforce any laws passed by the Federal Government unless they are expressly authorized in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution, the efforts of the Communist/Progressives will come to a standstill.
This is our best and maybe only way out short of war. We must crush the evil that we are confronted with, but without resorting to violence. We must exhaust all legal means within our powers. If war begins, all is lost and evil wins.
You have to make a choice. To do nothing is still a choice; a choice for Communism and slavery. If you love freedom get involved and fight. Call, mail, go to public demonstrations. Do something!
Years from now, God willing and we still live in a free country, do you want to tell your kids and grandkids that you sat it out, that you lived through maybe the single greatest turning point in American history and did nothing?
"...From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
Henry V
William Shakespeare
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