An Analysis of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Environmental Policy

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Website / Vanity | Sept. 23, 2003 | Mark Edward Vande Pol, aka, Carry_Okie

[AuntB]

I haven't even scratched the surface on this long read yet, but I have a question. Who do you think will allow another opinion/remedy to be heard or might allow any input.... Schwarzenegger or Bustamante?

[Carry_Okie]

Are you asking me if either one of those candidates would listen to what I'm saying? No way.

I really don't think there's any real chance that any candidate would hear a word of it even if he read it.

They're all obsessed right now.

I have one more quivver full of articles that is nearing completion. We'll see if it gets anybody's attention.

[countrydummy]

GeeZ! I can't believe you would believe that! Have you ever heard the words and terminolgy of rheoric and propaganda?

Carry is honestly trying to give an all points assessment......you are being concrete....not listening!

I have no further apathy or empathy for you, you will deserve what you vote for!

[Kevin Curry]

You don't vote for Arnold, and you will help California suffer under far worse than a frog.

You don't vote for McClintock, and you will help to ensure California continues its slick-skid rush to social liberal hell. It might happen even if you do vote for McClintock, but your conscience will at least be clear.

[countrydummy]

Gosh, that was so nice! I don't know what to say!

[SierraWasp]

"the few Rs elected to Sacremento will sign on with AS but battle Scruz and get consessions..."

Very astute and correct!!!

[Carry_Okie]

Well at least we got some of them thinking. I really wish people understood how influential such regulatory powers are in the economy. It's the same batch of people who produced the power crisis as write crap like Arnold's plan.

If $42 billion in extra power costs don't get their attention, what will?

[SierraWasp]

"...although I'm sure there are other RINO Wilsonista EnviroMENTALists there too."

You've got it! They'll keep "Old Cuntry Arnold" so pumped full of this crappola and he'll spout it endlessly to us until we'll have to change his name to SchwarzeNAGGER!!!

Well... The "Win at any price crowd" is getting so ruthless that it may be a immaculate election if Tom can overcome the odds, but I still think Davis is gonna pull it off and survive this whole deal. I may be wrong, but this whole court coup dispirited a lot of voters, absentee and otherwise.

The courts keep mangling "The Will Of The People" repeatedly in CA like they did with Prop 187 and the Dems just laugh at the people they defeat with their corrupt judges. Eventually, the people just throw in the towell!!!

[Kevin Curry]

I really wish people understood how influential such regulatory powers are in the economy

It is a tax every bit as destructive and expensive (if not more) as income, property, or sales taxes. Arnold apparently has a low opinion of his supporters' intelligence.

[nunya bidness]

Outstanding work Mark. Stay well.

[goldstategop]

I agree. Arnold's plan has good intentions but it doesn't work cause it relies on command and control mechanisms rather than the free market to protect the environment. After all the decades of experience with government in charge, one would think he learned something. Perhaps its political pandering to the uninformed. I'd as soon see to it to these proposals never see the light of day.

[Roscoe]

BTTT

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!!

[countrydummy]

Ping!

[BibChr]

It wouldn't do my conscience one good thing knowingly to throw my vote away on an empty, self-referential hollow gesture towards Tom McClintock, a man who knows he cannot win, who cannot lead his own party (let alone the state), and who has said anyway that he won't initiate any change on the status quo in re. abortion.

My conscience would not be helped by sacrificing hardworking families and enterpreneurs and the safety of our streets so that I can feel good about myself.

My conscience is connected to my brain, and is doing just fine in this regard, thank you.

I'm a bit concerned about yours, however.

Dan

[Iconoclast2]

BTTT

[Carry_Okie]

The problem isn't as much as what he said as it is the people that he hired to say it. Those folks becoms staff to the governor. It's one thing to blather on in a newspaper about the stuff you read in which you would like to think you believe, it's another to make executive decisions to DO things that make you feel good. That's where we learn where Arnold really stands unfortunately because he is apt to situational thinking because he doesn't have a set of matured policies in mind. He wants to do great things. Unfortunately, coercion is a schematically simple concept to the uneducated. That's why he's a danger to California and to the conservative Republican Party.

In that respect alone, what he says in the campaign is untrustworthy. I am glad you took the opportunity to consider a different perspective. Thank you.

[evilsmoker]

McClintock said he'd leave it up to the locals.

[SierraWasp]

You know... to be bluntly honest, I'm upset at Tom over the Indian Gaming thing, but I'm more upset over this "plan" of Arnold's than I was when his "chief economic advisor" was denigrating Prop 13!!!

I can hold my nose over the Indian Gaming thing, but not this bizzare "plan!" That assumes that "Recall Yes," wins, which I'm not at all convinced will happen!!!

[Fred]

Listen to me now and believe me later...