'Patricia D. Sutton - 09:53am Nov 10, 2001 EST/EDT (#409 of 447)
Here is an interesting article from the Austin Chronicle. It indicates that
Bush is actually out to protect big business in America. Not only does he
not care about Canada. But he seems not to care about is own people. It is
not just a matter of Canadians waking up. When will the American people
wake up and get this guy out of office.
AUSTIN CHRONICLE ARTICLE: Our boy Bush has been a busy beaver,
hasn't he? So little time, so many favors to do for corporate campaign
contributors.
Consider George W.'s regulatory rollback rampage. George the Destroyer
has shredded dozens of rules designed to protect the public from corporate
excesses. Many Americans think arsenic in our drinking water is not a
good thing, since it's a poison and a known cancer-causer. Thanks to
pesticide runoff and other industrial practices, however, arsenic abounds in
America's water supply, so the National Academy of Sciences backed a
new regulatory standard allowing no more than 10 parts-per-billion of
arsenic in water. But Bush says that while that might work for people, he's
told it might squeeze the profits of the chemical boys, so he's withdrawing
the rule.
He's also withdrawing a proposed rule to prohibit mining that would cause
"substantial, irreparable harm" to communities or the environment; he's
stopping a rule that would have protected millions of Americans from getting
repetitive stress injuries on the job; and he's trying to reopen 60 million
acres of our national forests to oil drilling, logging, and the building of timber
roads.
Bush also has rushed in to delay a rule that would have stopped HMOs
from releasing our personal health information, a rule that would have
stopped industry from draining wetlands, and a rule that would have
protected children and workers from lead-paint poisoning.
Bush's corporate contributors are cheering lustily as their boy takes an axe
to rules they don't like -- a bit of butchery that both the White House and
Big Business lobbyists refer to as a "balanced policy" of regulation. Under
their balancing act, corporate greed gets far greater weight than human
health. Bush is giving us the best government money can buy. '
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Not my opinion, just one fairly mild example of reaction here to this particular bit of DC corruption ... another poster there points out that the yaller pine lobby has been working up this assault for a long time, and would have launched it this year no matter who Reagan's justices chose as president ... and that is the case as i understand it, there remains however the relative manners in which the two parties tend to treat their neighbours ... Bush has yet to prove himself good or evil in that respect imho, perhaps he will roll some heads at this 'Commerce' department, and set things right ... we shall see |
