10. Look to the future: Senator Obama offers the most comprehensive energy plan of any Presidential nominee in history, it will end our dependence on foreign oil and create as many as 5,000,000 jobs. Senator McCain’s plan continues the Bush Administration’s policy of appeasement to Big Oil, does nothing to reduce our dependence on oil, and isn’t as good as Paris Hilton’s.
9. You pollute, you pay: Obama and Biden support plan to make polluters pay for pollution credits and to clean up toxic waste. McCain wants us to foot the bill for clean-up and to give polluters billions in tax breaks and subsidies.
8. Keeping us healthy: Obama and Biden have fought to keep our air and water clean. McCain has voted against clean water ten times and voted six times to make it harder for states and the EPA to keep our air clean.
7. Listening to the scientists: The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that America must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming. Obama’s plan will reach that goal. McCain’s plan falls far short.
6. The record speaks for itself: Senator Barack Obama earned a lifetime environmental voting score of 86%. Senator Biden earned an 83%. Senator John McCain earned a 24% score.
5. Decisions are made by those who show up: In the last two years, John McCain missed EVERY SINGLE major vote on energy. One vital 2007 bill, to move billions of dollars in tax credits from the oil industry to wind, solar and other clean energy sources, failed by one vote: John McCain’s. Obama and Biden, also running for President, voted for it.
4. Saving money at the pump: Obama proposes to double the fuel efficiency of our cars in 18 years, reducing our oil consumption by at least 35% or 10 millions barrels per day. McCain voted against increasing fuel efficiency in 2003 and 2005. He missed the 2007 vote. Presumably, he ran out of gas.
3. We’re not alone: For more than 20 years, Joe Biden has been at the forefront of the fight against global warming. In 1986, he offered the first Senate bill to fight global warming pollution. Since then, he has been the Senate’s strongest voice for making America the international leader in reducing global warming pollution and exporting clean technology.
2. Higher standards: To create millions of new jobs, we must boost production of renewable electricity. Obama plans create 25% of our electricity from clean energy by 2025. McCain opposes any national renewable energy standard.
1. Judge him by his friends: Senator McCain accepted more than $2 million from the oil and gas industry, more than half of that since he changed his position on offshore drilling last month. His forthcoming plan to open America’s playgrounds and sandboxes to drilling is expected to net another $1.2 million.
Name:
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
Alias:
Sigma's, Phi Beta's, The Sons of Kush, The Brothers of Phire and Brimstone, Dem' Country Boyz in Blu
Chapter: The Nasty Notorious Nu Chapter
Founders: Bro. A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, Charles I. Brown
Founding Date: January 9th, 1914 @ Howard University
Motto: Culture for Service, Service for Humanity
Principles: Brotherhood, Scholarship, and Service
Colors: Royal Blue and Pure White
PHI BETA SIGMA Fraternity, Inc., an international organization of college and professional men, was founded in 1914 at Howard University and has as its principles, Brotherhood, Scholarship and Service. These principles are exhibited by the fraternity motto, "Culture for Service and Service for Humanity." As one of the now nine predominantly Black Greek-Lettered organizations, Phi Beta Sigma has a membership of over 100,000 with over 600 chapters throughout the continental United States, Switzerland and Africa. We are also the only Fraternity to have an official sister sorority in ZETA PHI BETA Sorority, Inc.
Phi Beta Sigma consists of men dedicated to enhancing great minds and promoting systematic fellowship, African-American freedom, justice, equal rights, and service to America's communities. Being both a social and service organization, Phi Beta Sigma has many programs. Our three National Programs are Social Action, Bigger and Better Business, and Education. In order to implement these and other programs, the Fraternity works with organizations such as: The National Pan-Hellenic Council, the NAACP, National Boys' Club of America, and the American Cancer Society. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity is an organization that is concerned and involved in meeting the needs of the community.
First Fraternity to have Presidents of other countries in its membership (Hon. Bros. Kwame Nkrumah, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, and Nelson Mandela) No other Fraternity Except Omega Psi Phi can even claim a nation's President in its membership.
First and ONLY Black Greek-Letter Fraternity to have one of its members on the face of a U.S. Coin. (George Washington Carver: The 1951 Half Dollar) Only 2 African Americans have EVER been on the face of a US coin: George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington--who was not Greek.
First Black Greek-Letter Fraternity to be recognized by Howard University April 15, 1914 (Omega Psi Phi wasn't until October 28, 1914).
First Fraternity to establish a chapter South of the State of Virginia before the year 1915.
First Fraternity to be offered a merger with another Fraternity (1915: Kappa Alpha Psi, formerly Kappa Alpha Nu...Thanks, but no thanks!!!).
First Fraternity to hold a joint International Convention with another African-American Fraternity (Omega Psi Phi).
First and ONLY Fraternity to establish a constitutional bond with a Sorority (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.).
First Fraternity to establish a youth auxiliary program (The Sigma Beta Club).
First Fraternity to own and operate a Credit Union for its members.
First Fraternity to establish chapters within the Continent of Africa.
First Fraternity to establish Graduate/ Alumni Membership.
First Fraternity to establish a Graduate/Alumni Chapter.
First Fraternity to step with a cane (Not Kappa Alpha Psi).
Lastly, many Fraternities may have supported the Million Man March, but only PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY, INCORPORATED can lay claim to not only supporting, but sponsoring the March at its International Headquarters. If you didn't know...now you know!!! We are all too often IMITATED, but we can never be DUPLICATED!!!
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