General Politics Discussion

[Rainrider22]

Everyone had Ford's entire candidacy as a warning. He promised time and again to cancel Cap and Trade AND the programs it funded. Green ON was one of them. I'm not going to give credit to consumers for not associating the two, but certainly if you are in the industry supplying these things and you don't know where they come from, that's more due diligence required.

Did he promise to cancel those programs?  I don't recall hearing that.  Most of what I remember from his campaign was a lack of detail on how he would pay for the tax cuts he promised.

Certainly we assumed he would be cutting those programs, although every time I asked a Ford voter about them, they swore up and down the wall there wouldn't be cuts.

I'm not bitter.

The program was going to end around Feb anyways so it isnt terrible he is ending it, it is the way it was delivered.  There should have been some warning to the industry so they could work towards a wind down of the program.  There are many orders in the factories that may not be manufactured in time to be installed by August 31.  So people who made financial decisions based on the program should still be covered.  It could cause some real financial problems for some families. No one wants to see that for people who are scraping by pay to pay....  I am fortunate that I can weather the hit, just means I wont be able to do other things for my family.