To: ChinuSFO who wrote (146422 ) 10/25/2014 12:36:38 AM From: Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) | Respond to Speaking of The Valley, here is a comedy routine written by one of its most famous losers. The business community won't take her any more seriously than the California electorate did.The writer was the deposed chief executive of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005 and the most recent Republican to be demolished at the ballot box by Babs Boxer. She has turned losing into an art form. American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been under siege by an army of professional activists. Its weapons: radically oversimplified arguments and online pressure campaigns . Its victim: free and open debate. The attacks have prompted Google , among other tech giants , to part ways with ALEC, an alliance of state legislators who advocate limited government, free markets, and individual liberty. Unfortunately, such shortsighted thinking all too often shapes corporate strategy at a time when policies with enormous, and potentially damaging, economic implications are gaining ground. secondary targets or membership organizations and shareholder resolutions. Danish toy-maker Lego to end its relationship with Shell. Too often companies succumb to the interests of a small minority of well-organized, professional activists intent on chilling speech and marginalizing the voice of business and job creators in U.S. society. The goal of these activists is to have business bow to their ideological will and reshape companies in their desired image. Their attacks on businesses’ protected speech and political participation are intended to sideline the entrepreneurial perspective and silence the opportunity for nuanced policy discussions.biggest and third-biggest producers , respectively, of carbon dioxide emissions , and their leaders were absent from the recent U.N. Climate Summit . At a time when American families are still recovering from joblessness and the recession, should the United States commit to an energy policy that puts U.S. jobs, and the economy, at risk?15 governors sent a letter to President Obama expressing their concern over the power-plant regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency that are estimated to retire enough electrical capacity to power 60 million homes . To be sure, the Cato Institute used an EPA-supported climate model to find that if the power plant plan is implemented entirely, a mere 0.018 degrees Celsius rise in global temperature would be averted.washingtonpost.com deposed chief executive of Hewlett Packard usatoday30.usatoday.com
