JimNtexas said:
So will you take your hydrogen with nuclear, coal, or more very large dam projects? Pick at least one.
Of course they do,and you know it. Heck, they'd like to tear down Boulder Dam. Flood control might hurt a "wetland" you know.
Here is a typical lefist view towards flood control in a New York Times editorial of 13 April 2005:
Anyone who cares about responsible budgeting and the health of America's rivers and wetlands should pay attention to a bill now before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and other water-related projects -- this at a time when President Bush is asking for major cuts in Medicaid and other important domestic programs. Among these projects is a $2.7 billion boondoggle on the Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences.
The Government Accountability Office and other watchdogs accuse the corps of routinely inflating the economic benefits of its projects. And environmentalists blame it for turning free-flowing rivers into lifeless canals and destroying millions of acres of wetlands -- usually in the name of flood control and navigation but mostly to satisfy Congress's appetite for pork.
This is a bad piece of legislation.
When was the last time you hear a leftie asking the goverment to build a dam?? They hate that kind of thing, and you know it.
Once again...you still appear to not be able to see the forest through the trees.
How long can we keep trying to tame Mother Nature? She will eventually win...always. Wetlands protect the coasts from storms. Wetlands absorb overflowing rivers. What don't you understand about this? Some dams were ill-concieved pork barrell projects from the get go. Extreme loss of wetlands, habitat, fish migration, etc. Others were well thought out and built in a way that helped the natural flow of water and aquatic life to continue. In your flood control quote above you reference a MIssissippi River project that
twice failed inspection. So you believe that just because it is a "flood control" project it should be rubber stamped anyway. A flood control project where? In some area that will destroy more wetlands (which are a form of natural flood control by the way) just so a fat cat developer can put expensive homes there? That's not flood control. That's corporate greed at the expense of everyone else.
Environmentalists are mostly from the Left. These are the people who fight for clean air, clean water, sustainable habitat, pollution controls, anti-sprawl, and a host of other things to make YOUR life better. And then we have the Bush administration who has allowed increased levels of arsenic in our drinking water, Superfund site cleanup bills to be shifted to the taxpayers instead of the big corporations that caused them, increased mercury allowed into the air by coal fired power plants, non-enforcement of current EPA regulations with a continued degradation of such, no improvement in CAFE requirements, etc. etc.
I doubt you even know what the foundation of the Left is...let alone liberalism. You and others like you are so brainwashed by the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh that you have lost the ability to think outside the confined box you've built around yourself. Take the blinders off. We
are our brother's keeper. We have the moral and ethical obligation to take care of those around us who are less fortunate or in times of need. Perhaps one day you will be part of that group. There will always be bad apples from every walk of life; however they are a minority in the majority of good people.
If being a Democrat and a Liberal means protecting our nation, our air, water, food supply, civil rights, human rights, environment and fellow neighbors from harm in any form including that from our own government, and never being afraid to question those in power...then I am proud to be one.
