Bloomberg Promises $15 Million To Help Make Up For U.S. Withdrawal From Climate

[Ptarmigan]

Bloomberg Promises $15 Million To Help Make Up For U.S. Withdrawal From Climate Deal
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/02/531238185/bloomberg-promises-15-million-to-help-make-up-for-u-s-withdrawal-from-climate-de

Michael Bloomberg is pledging to fill a funding gap created by President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, offering up to $15 million to support the U.N. agency that helps countries implement the agreement.

"Americans will honor and fulfill the Paris Agreement by leading from the bottom up — and there isn't anything Washington can do to stop us," said Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor who now serves as the U.N.'s special envoy on cities and climate change.

"Mayors, governors, and business leaders from both political parties are signing [on to] a statement of support that we will submit to the U.N.," Bloomberg said, "and together, we will reach the emission reduction goals the U.S. made in Paris in 2015."

Another leftist hack.

One inconvenient fact:

The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.

U.S. Constitution › Article II
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii

Local governments and states cannot do that.

[Bad Dog]

Chump change Mike, NY needs to cough up at least 15 Billion as their fair share.  Especially since CA and IL are well beyond broke-ass at this point.

[BlueStateSaint]

Chump change Mike, NY needs to cough up at least 15 Billion as their fair share.  Especially since CA and IL are well beyond broke-ass at this point.

Hey--don't go suggesting that!  Dandy Andy Cuomo might try that!

[SVPete]

Chump change Mike, NY needs to cough up at least 15 Billion per year as their fair share.  Especially since CA and IL are well beyond broke-ass at this point.

Completing your thought.

The Paris Agreement would have accomplished:

* NOTHING for the environment (if that much!);

* Crippled the economies of the US and EuroLand;

* Transferred a couple hundred billion a year to the corrupt governments and tin-horn dictators of third-world countries.

[FunkyZero]

Bloomberg Promises $15 Million To Help Make Up For U.S. Withdrawal From Climate Deal

As it should be.
If people wanna go off and join a cult, more power to them.
But at the point where it starts affecting law and extracting taxpayer monies and jobs, no dice.
He can dump all the money he wants into it. Hell, put it all in there.
That'll take that much more away from his ridiculous gun confiscation schemes he goes around funding and promoting.
Go off and be stupid all you want, we don't wanna play

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's not against the treaty provisions of the Constitution to do this for any states dumb enough to want to, states have pretty wide discretion in how to spend their tax revenue 'For the general welfare,' and if you actually buy the whole butterfly effect climate mumbo-jumbo there is a minimal rational basis for it.  They are committing their own funds, not Federal money or the nation, to anything.

I say go for it, Blue States, us in the Red States will welcome all the businesses fleeing from the oppressive tax overhead this policy will bring down on them!

[SVPete]

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I say go for it, Blue States, us in the Red States will welcome all the businesses fleeing from the oppressive tax overhead this policy will bring down on them!

Using CA as an example,CA's "balanced" budget is a ~$180B fraud. $$ in designated funds are being stolen for general fund use. The state has been chronically under-funding its pension funds. IOW, the State of CA is drunkenly teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

On top of that, the State Senate just passed single-payer health insurance, and the bill will be taken up in the Assembly. Rs, in both houses of the legislature are numerically irrelevant. So the chances this monstrosity will pass are disgustingly high, and I cannot imagine Goobernor Moonbeam having the sense to veto it. So, that would be another $200B on top of the $180B budget-fraud.

And now Goobernor Moonbeam wants CA to shoulder part of the $200B PER YEAR the US was supposed to shell out as part of Paris? Please! Write your Congress-Critters (those of you who have SANE Congress-Critters) demanding that they vote against any/all bail-outs of CA! CA's Ds - in government and voters - need to be taught that lunatic social spending, luxury pension plans, utopian "healthcare" plans, and Enviro-Hysteria are collectively and individually unmitigatable disasters.

[BlueStateSaint]

NY's pension fund is (supposedly) well-funded.  At least they got that one right.

[DumbAss Tanker]

NY's pension fund is (supposedly) well-funded.  At least they got that one right.

Not so much CA's or IL's.  I saw a story last night that the IL bond rating had fallen to junk status, below countries like Peru and Estonia, for a variety of reasons including its size vs. current revenue, a mired political process, and increasing future obligations without a path to the revenue to meet them.

[DLR Pyro]

Michael Bloomberg is pledging to fill a funding gap created by President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, offering up to $15 million to support the U.N. agency that helps countries implement the agreement.

a fool and his money...