Posted on 10/18/2009 3:24:13 PM PDT by Steelfish
Tom Borelli October 15, 2009
Nike, Starbucks and Other Team Up With the Left to Sell Cap-and-Trade
Every day we have an opportunity to vote with our wallets by letting companies know there is a price to pay for colluding with those who oppose our values.
"Yes We Can!" the slogan used by then-Senator Obama during last year’s presidential campaign – is now being used by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) to launch a last ditch effort to jumpstart cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate.
Graham and Kerry’s commentary, “Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)” published in the New York Times last weekend outlines elements of a bipartisan legislative framework on cap-and-trade.
The commentary follows the launch of "We Can Lead" -- a campaign to promote climate change legislation by a coalition of big business, environmental, labor and left-wing special interest groups.
This high-profile corporate support of Obama’s energy policy exposes a long-simmering development in public policy: the progressive takeover of the boardroom.
The unification of big business with liberal activist groups on important public policy issues poses a significant threat to liberty and limited government. As we are observing, the collective power of these groups is big enough to fashion a bipartisan compromise on climate change even during a raging national debate over health care.
We Can Lead, a broad-based corporation coalition of energy, technology and other companies, including Duke Energy, Hewlett Packard and Starbucks, is mounting a high-profile campaign to promote cap-and-trade legislation. Coalition members have paid for ads in newspapers, including an open letter to President Obama and Congress urging action on cap-and-trade legislation, stating, “We need you to swiftly enact comprehensive legislation to cut carbon pollution and create an economy-wide cap and trade program.”
Last week, We Can Lead spearheaded...
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I posted the list of companies that support Cap and Trade here back in July.
They were listed in the congressional records.
I wonder how many signed up for “We can Lead”?
Stupid Nike and starbucks. Who’s going to have the cash for $100 sneakers and over-priced coffee once our utility bills double as well as the cost of everything else. Fools!
Last I checked, Nike makes all their stuff overseas and so will be unaffected. As for Starbucks — they just cater to leftist-chique — it’s their stock-in-trade.
Gonna be hard for me to boycott someone I dont buy from anyway. I guess they are appealing to their customers, who are liberals.
I’m shocked!
I can`t stand Starbucks` coffee, its very bitter and too strong,as for Nike,I haven`t bought one of their tennis shoes since they came out with the outrageously priced Air Jordan line.I can buy several pairs at Walmart for what one pair of Nike costs,put gel insoles into those Walmart tennis shoes and their`s no difference in comfort.
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