Business, labor, greens tip caps for one another (to screw the people)

Politico ^ | 12/4/2009 | Lisa Lerer

[markomalley]

The transformation of America’s environmental movement began, as ex-United Steelworkers board member David Foster recalls, in late 2004 in a borrowed conference room at a table surrounded by union officials, top aides and the always-present group of Washington assistants.

“We’re in this together,” Foster remembered Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope and Frances Beinecke, head of the Natural Resources Defense Council, telling USW President Leo Gerard.

About the same time, another group of environmentalists began networking with equally unlikely partners.

Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute, asked General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to help lobby for a national climate policy. The dialogue they launched eventually became the basis of legislation now in Congress to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

“We had been lobbying for what we felt was right but not seeing the interconnectedness,” Foster said of the different efforts and their unusual coalitions.

Today, alliances between Big Business, labor and environmental groups — once nearly impossible to imagine — are not only restructuring political advocacy but also shaping policy in President Barack Obama’s Washington.

[markomalley]

This is, of course, a totally fawning Politico article about the progress of environmentalism, and so on.

But if you read it with a little bit of a jaundiced eye, you will see the collusion of these different forces against the American people. You can see that the greens are working toward their pantheistic goal of "mother earth," while business sees new profit streams through government fiat, and the labor unions see a way to increase their domination over the American worker (and increase the power of their leaders). Insidious.

[samsmom]

POWER & MONEY is what the unholy alliance of labor, greens and business are after and our elected representatives want their cut. We should have full disclosure for every elected official as to how they become millionaires on public servant salaries.

[6SJ7]

Today, alliances between Big Business, labor and environmental groups — once nearly impossible to imagine — are not only restructuring political advocacy but also shaping policy in President Barack Obama’s Washington.

Fascism with a coat of Green paint.