Welcome to Socialism, how's that hope and change working out for ya?

A License Required for your HOUSE?



If you own your home you really need to check this out. At the end of this

email is the Google link to verify. If the country thinks the housing

market is depressed now, wait until everyone sees this. No one will be

buying homes in the future.



A License will be required for your house...no longer just for cars and

mobile homes....Thinking about selling your house? Take a look at H.R.

2454 (Cap and Trade bill). This is unbelievable! Home owners take

note and tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!



Beginning one year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be

able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy

and water efficiency standards of this ';Cap %26amp; Trade'; bill, passed by the

House of Representatives. If it is also passed by the Senate, it will be

the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.











The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that

in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be

$6,800 per year. No one is excluded. However, once the lower classes feel

the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure that these voters will get a

tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost.

Thus, you Mr. And Mrs. Middle Class have to pay even more since additional

tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else..



But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has

many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is this: A year from now

you won't be able to sell your house without some bureaucrat's OK. Yes,

you read that right.







The caveat (there always is a caveat) is that if you have enough money to

make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if

not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes (';mobile homes';) are

included. In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without

the permission of the EPA administrator.











To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of

your home measured. Then the government will tell you what your new energy

efficiency requirement is and you will be required to make modifications

to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act, to comply with the

new energy and water efficiency requirements.











Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license

(called a ';label'; in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show

what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency

rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner. If you don't get a

high enough rating, you can't sell.











And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every

year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the

Act. The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap %26amp;

Trade program (AKA the ';American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009';)

and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and

standards he/she alone determines to be in the government's best interest.

Requirements are set low initially so the bill will pass Congress. Then

the Administrator can set new standards every year.



The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for

private and commercial residences and buildings. However, the EPA

administrator can set higher standards at any time. Sect. 202 - Building

Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increase the

energy efficiency of all existing homes across America .











Beginning one year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell

your home unless you retrofit it to comply with its energy and water

efficiency standards. You had better sell soon, because the standards will

be raised each year and will be really hard (expen$ive) to meet in a few

years. Oh, goody!











The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousand

dollars to comply with the retrofit program requirements IF you meet

certain energy efficiency levels. But, wait, the State can set additional

requirements on who qualifies to receive the grants. You should expect

requirements such as ';can't have an income of more than $50K per year';,

';home selling price can't be more than $125K';, or anything else to target

the upper middle class (that includes YOU?) and prevent you from

qualifying for the grants.











Most of us won't get a dime and will have to pay the entire cost of the

retrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more ';change you

can believe in.'; Sect. 204 - Building Energy Performance Labeling Program

establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will

identify the achieved energy efficiency performance for ';at lWelcome to Socialism, how's that hope and change working out for ya?
Yes, indeed that pretty much locks you in at where ever you are in life. If you don't own a house it jacks up the cost of getting one to the point where it may be forever out of reach. If you do own a house, you may be locked into it for lack of funds to make it match California standards (as I understand it, that's the goal, make the nation the same as CA energy standards). Even if you continually strive to save that lump of cash to achieve those 'standards' the bar will constantly be raised every year (bureaucrats CAN'T leave anything alone, justifies their existence) so many will never be able to sell.

So, Cap %26amp; Tax will be the cherry on top of the foreclosure pudding that will put the market into a situation 3 times worse than it is already. Nice. The mortgage meltdown is still rippling through the market, foreclosures still setting records every month, now they kill the rest of the market.Welcome to Socialism, how's that hope and change working out for ya?
hey i just woke up this saturday morning, why are you trying to put me back to sleep??
Do I get a prize for getting to the bottom of your question?

I assume there was a question in there somewhere?
well its had its ups and downs over the last 60 years. but we are still kicking



by the way its been over 30 years since i believed any number the CBO has released , its been consistently wrong everything it releases needs to be changed do to inaccuracies
What happened to my country..... All i can say is hope ';you people'; voted correctly... And yes, that means you people...
I don't know if this is spam, but if it was, then it still made me say. What. The. F*ck.



Energy efficency? NOW they come up with this idea? The White House doesn't need a license. Why should our homes?
People never cease to amaze me. WE, the human race, are killing this planet. We NEED to take drastic measures to ensure there IS a planet left for our grand kids. Change isn't always painless..and not everyone will agree with it. Look at the seat belt laws. When they were first enacted, people screamed bloody murder...now they save lives.

Try and drag yourselves into the next century please.



Donna
I have perused the amendment legislation and frankly I can't see the connection between socialism and the building codes pre-selling of property clause or a home owner license to re-sell thier homes to a potential buyer.



I think that the legislation sounds very good as a caveat minimum standards for potential home buyers who are on the look out for quality homes for their money. Afterall, this is a lifetime investment for any potential buyer.



You're political ideological premise sounds very out of skelter here. Socialism does not encourage the propertied to be necessarily propertyless either, ie, by this I infer that the propertied does not have to surrender to the state their property due to nationalised regulations which are perceived to be outrageous in the perceptions of the purportedly propertied individual.



The failure of the private sector to ensure the security of the propertied had already been compromised when Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae proved to be a great realty mortgage belt debacle a very short while ago. The purportedly socialist elements being the bailout from federal government meant a trillion dollar American taxpayer funded bailout as approved by Congress. In return for the American taxpayers the government has set minimum guidelines for people to have value for money realty and to ensure that shonky real estate thieves and their lackies ie realty conveyancy lawyers etc are qualitatively checked accordingly.



There can never be any compromise to what a trillion dollars is worth to American taxpayers if this means that American politicians have to legislate minimum standards then so be it.
This is to keep the common folk from ever again accumulating wealth in real estate. All dullards who thought W was bad are in for a rude awakening, if and when you get out of bed and assess obama'-caused damages.