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Originally Posted by Robbie
No. I hate the way our govt. has turned out as far as human rights, military invasions, etc.
As for the govt. stepping in and doing something about the local environment. Yeah, the EPA did do a lot of good. The regulations they put in place back in the day cleaned up some local areas. (of course at the same time we were blowing shit up and driving tanks and dropping Napalm to completely deforest all of Vietnam...so which was better?)
Anyway, as I said...why isn't the govt. doing anything except coming up with money making schemes? "Carbon Credits"???
Really? The world is supposedly coming to an end and they come up with buying and selling "carbon credits"?
Why not simply mandating that all buildings...both residential and business be fitted with solar panels?
They could have used those couple of trillion dollars that was spent on bailout and "stimulus" and done that. Would have given a lot of people jobs and helped save the planet at the same time.
Guess there wasn't enough money in it for our crooked politicians. And more importantly...they don't consider it to be important enough.
That should tell us all something right there.
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well what it should tell us is there is 'bigger priorities' for the 'government'.
If you have all these things in mind, look at the military budget, you see where the 'priority' is
carbon credits etc is designed to do exactly what you're mad about.. look like more taxes, piss you off. what it was actually designed to do initially, was properly tax businesses for the pollution that they are generating. So you have a mining company, making a 'profit', but can't actually generate a profit without the loss being pushed onto the state. This is why privatized national resources is a tad insane
you're entirely right regarding government action towards this 'recession'(economic warfare), it requires a letting go of 'democracy/republic' and accepting the fact WW2 never ended for some folks. When you look at the details of how the government acted/funded during the 2008 recession, you will see how funny all this is.
it's a long conversation that probably requires some beer, but to move forward the only thing we need to do is continue getting the word out there. With the current 'brainwashing' with 'freedom/peace/clean environment', the current governments policies won't last for long, without fundamental changes or a huge smack down
then it will be just a matter of money vs people.. again.
edit: my apologies, i was being facetious with the patriot point. i just find it funny how patriotic people seem to be, yet miss the major points that patriotism requires