>>>>>>>Now it's viewed by Congress as a public-works funding mechanism for funneling contracts to favored districts. Fundraisers like MoveOn.org view Superfund as a scare mechanism with which to solicit donations. Superfund hasn't been about environmental protection or public health protection in years. It's about who gets how much money and who can denounce whom.
He brilliantly describes the entire Superfund Program.
>>>>>This science-illiteracy statement often crops up in Superfund scare stories. What effect could a substance four miles away from you have? None, unless you are exposed to it......
His take-down on Senator Jeffords, bloviator/idiot, was a classic in the genre.
I'm convinced Easterbrook is bipolar or schitzo. His posting on poverty, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1081564/posts was the most ignorant treatise on American economics I've suffered exposure to since the last time I watched a Howard Dean speech.
To: .cnI redruM
So of course Superfund spending is declining--less is needed because there's less to clean up. God forbid if seniors saved for retirement, welfare was no longer needed, etc.
2 posted on
02/20/2004 1:13:28 PM PST by
staytrue
To: .cnI redruM
"A steady decline in Superfund funding has alarmed lawmakers," the Washington Post breathlessly reports this morning. This morning's full-page MoveOn.org ad in The New York Times, featuring Al Gore, also complains about declining Superfund spending. But declining Superfund spending is good news! Toxic emissions by U.S. industry have been falling for more than 15 years; the total number of Superfund sites has been falling, owing to completed cleanups. So of course Superfund spending is declining--less is needed because there's less to clean up.
About as mysterious to Liberals as Crime rate is falling, why is prison population on the rise?
3 posted on
02/20/2004 1:15:44 PM PST by
Crazieman
To: .cnI redruM
Since 1988, toxic emissions by U.S. industry have declined by about 55 percent. (See table ES-21.)Paging John Stossel
My son came from school the other day and said that he confirmed John's census of children thinking things are worse now. - He set them straight.
4 posted on
02/20/2004 1:38:50 PM PST by
Only1choice____Freedom
(The word system implies they have done something the same way at least twice)
To: .cnI redruM
Hi! Good post, and good to see ya.
6 posted on
02/20/2004 3:12:54 PM PST by
MonroeDNA
(Soros is the enemy.)
To: .cnI redruM; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
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I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
8 posted on
02/20/2004 5:16:31 PM PST by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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