Environmental Groups vs. Public Works Projects
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Will the enviros allow big public works projects to go forward? Hugh Hewitt, who has been defending landowners in environmental lawsuits, says no. Environmental restriction groups exist precisely to stop economic development, for whatever reasons they can think of. That's why their direct mail and big contributors give them money; that's what keeps their (often six-figure) salaries coming in; that's what they believe in. Advocates of major public works spending like to look back on the projects of New Dealers like Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, and Fiorello LaGuardia. All well and good. But Hopkins, Ickes, and LaGuardia were unusually gifted at getting things done; there's no assurance that their present-day counterparts will be so hugely competent. And Hopkins, Ickes, and LaGuardia didn't have to face an array of environmental restriction groups adept at using legal processes to prevent them from building the things they wanted to build. LaGuardia Airport and the Pentagon were each built in less than a year. The enviro groups won't let anything get permitted that fast in our time.
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Enviromentalism
This oughtta be fun to watch. The One further bankrupting the country with make-work projects that result in no long term jobs that actually CREATE wealth being opposed by his erstwhile enviro Nazi pals who are the ultimate Luddites. I'm convinced that the radical enviromental left would, if they had their way, ban the burning af all fossil fuels, ban all forms of transportation, ban fertilizers, in other words, destroy modern civilization and literally throw humanity back into the Middle Ages. Since virtually all human activity is inherently evil, I wonder why they don't man up and kill themselves (thus decreasing their carbon footprint)? Just wonderin'.
environmental vs public works
with the "O"s new WPA proposal, i think this confrontation is only going to escalate !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ZIHbFQAzU
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