So, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that President Obama’s new climate bill will cost the average American family only $175 by 2020. A naive Rep. Brian Higgins said that’s “not a bad investment for a better economy.” He also implied this will bring a flood of “green jobs” to Western New York. What, exactly, is a green job and how do I apply for one? What a joke. In Higgins’ effort to justify his vote, he tries to paint a rosy picture of our future. The fact is the taxpayers are the ones who will subsidize the program forever. By punishing farmers, factories, refineries and power plants, Americans will experience unprecedented increases in the cost of energy, food and jobs. Does any rational person really believe that we can run our industries and light our cities with the wind and the sun in our lifetime?

I am not saying that we shouldn’t develop alternative energies, but to put this huge tax burden and increase in the cost of living on the backs of struggling Americans is just wrong.

In the meantime, I suggest that all of the unemployed call Higgins and ask him for one of those green jobs.

Paul Weslow

Angola