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In article <berlinerD0xoJs.3q4@netcom.com>,
Guy Berliner <berliner@netcom.com> wrote:

>EPA regulations are not always ideal. But the goal of environmental
>protection is not just some hideous plot by leftists who have infil
>trated the government a` la some McCarthyite conspiracy theory. And
>you're dead wrong if you think more than a tiny percentage of the
>electorate shares the militantly antienvironmental property rights
>zealotry of a Newt Gingrich. The reason we have an EPA, an Endangered
>Species Act, a National Parks Service, etc, is because the vast
>majority of the public recognizes the threats to our environment
>and wants to protect the environment, as well they should. Newt and
>friends would have gone down to the most ignominious of defeats
>had this election been based in any significant measure on their
>environmental positions.

Guy, let me remind you that the electorate _voted_ Newt
Gingrich into the Speakership.  Now, they may not share his
"militantly antienvironmental property rights zealotry",
but they clearly feel a dose of it is just the ticket for
handling the excesses in the opposite direction.  It is
past time for the EPA to _realize_ and _deal_with_ its
impact on people, or you will see more elections like
the one just past - and it won't take many of them before
the EPA finds itself on the chopping block.

Now MIND YOU - delete those paragraphs you just inserted -
I _don't_ think this is a good idea.  But gov't is not
an easy vehicle to control, it tends to veer, and it
just veered right.  Next time we wrestle it around, let's
try not to let it veer left again.

>Please read my previous post in this thread for more discussion of the
>relations between "property rights" and "ecology."

At this point, I don't have the time or inclination.  _Both_
have to be addressed, and I'm quite sure the electorate has
not put down its paddle...

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