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To: Father Terrence who wrote (22442)	5/29/1998 12:45:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

FT, I grew up 1 block away from a foundry in Wisconsin that used coke to melt the steel to pour into castings. The air was constantly filthy because of no pollution controls on the smokestack. I'm sure Ayn Rand would have been beaming with pride at the sight of the smoke. There were foundries all around Milwaukee that smoked like that, but they provided jobs. On some days we were literally choking on the stuff. There was a huge improvement when the government required them to install scrubbers in about 1955. And, guess what? No jobs were lost. There was probably an overall gain because of the jobs created to build the pollution controls. Do you think that it was an improper government intrusion to require the pollution controls? Do you think that the foundries would have cleaned up the pollution on their own? What would be the incentive? After all, the pollution controls must have come out of profits. Del