One more step in the right direction!

Signing this executive order is one more step to cut down the deficit without hurting the poor or middle-class. However, it’s not enough to get to  the level before former president J.W. Bush took office.

I still believe that President Obama has to push harder to finally reverse the tax give-away for the wealthiest Americans as well as close those tremendous number of loopholes for corporations.

After that President Obama needs to come back to his promises to write “a new chapter in American’s leadership on climate change”. It is inexcusable, despite all the domestic problems and  the political wrangling,  that it appears that climate change has been pushed of the American agenda!

Almost every country around the world, including India and China, have made strives to tackle this problem. In 2010, India passed a carbon tax on coal and China’s newest five-year-plan contains a pilot cap-and-trade system, under which polluters pay for excess pollution.

What’s wrong with our politicians in the United States?

Why is money more important than the survival of our planet?