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Mitchell Holman <ta2eene@aimail.net> wrote:

> }Tai, environmental extremism is the new home of the left in America.
> }The extremists who seek to "make the world better" often use
> }environmental legislation to push their political agenda i.e. socialism,
> }communism.
> }
> 
>        You are entirely correct. That is the problem with America
>    these days. The air is too clean, the rivers too pristine, and we
>    haven't had a decent smog alert in years.

This is my point of who's version of clean do we use?  Apparently you
want "pristine" rather than acceptable.  Mankind will pollute, this is
unavoidable. We need to ensure that the environment is "clean enough.:

>    What we need is a 
>    return to the good old days before the environmental extremists
>    took over. Most Americans rejoiced at the sight of factory 
>    smokestacks pouring pollutants into the sky.

Most small town WOULD rejoice, I know mine certainly would.  Factories
are very good for the local economy.  My fair city has been struggling
to survive on tree-hugging tourism, and barely surving with steadily
increasing tax rates.  Now a new eveloper wants to bring in a
motorsports facility.  Noww all the tree huggers are doing every thing
they can do, honest and dishonest, to keep this development out.  All
this, regardless of the economic good it would do.

Factories = Jobs

>    And if the occasional
>    river would catch on fire from all the solvents and chemicals that
>    were being dumped into it, so what? Burning rivers and lifeless
>    streams were a small price to pay for jobs and healthy corporate
>    profits. 
> 
>        It's high time we brought back all the polluting industries we
>    shipped overseas. Are we going to let a few lefty wackos deny
>    us our right to see the air we breathe?

All those industries employed a large portion of our population.  Not
everybody has the inate abilites and skill to land a "good" job in a
corporate office.  Not everybody wants to work (or can) in the service
"industry". These people are the ones getting screwed by the
environmental nazis.

ARS

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