Essential Economics for Politicians

Bruddah IZ said:
Again, the rich didn't get rich by killing off their costumers and the environment they live in.
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The poor, the ones that are forced to live down stream, adjacent to gross polluting facilities aren't considered their customer base, at least not one given much thought. Ever see the movie, Erin Brockovich? It ain't fiction.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
The poor, the ones that are forced to live down stream, adjacent to gross polluting facilities aren't considered their customer base, at least not one given much thought. Ever see the movie, Erin Brockovich? It ain't fiction.
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But it is a Movie, with an agenda attached.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
The poor, the ones that are forced to live down stream, adjacent to gross polluting facilities aren't considered their customer base, at least not one given much thought. Ever see the movie, Erin Brockovich? It ain't fiction.
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Nope it isn't. Again, companies don't get rich or make profits by making Erin Brokovich rich and her clients sick. Great story.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Compared to Koch industries? I don't have the assets to pay politicians to allow me to be a mass polluter . . . by products happen, but what is it conservatives use to say about "personal responsibility"? If corporations are really people (see: Citizens United ruling/Mitt Romney) then don't you feel they need to show some personal responsibility as well? Or are you more in favor of rolling back all restrictions in the, once again, false narrative (see: trickle down theory) that it will "create jobs"?
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Ramble on Daffy.
 
Seriously, where was the EPA? Wasn't it their job to monitor PG&E? They were gross polluters as you said and I would expect the EPA to at least be aware of gross polluters.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
But they were gross polluters according to you. How is that the EPA doesn't know who the gross polluters are?
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I don't know, you tell me, that is entirely your line of thought, you brought that up not me, so you provide the answers. Were they paid off? Bribed?
 
Hüsker Dü said:
That's all you got? All that build up, as if this time you actually knew something, then poof, yet another popcorn fart like always.
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Oh right. Ummm yes. The underfunded, under staffed EPA that couldn't control gross polluters. Please make your case for funding another incompetent government agency.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Oh right. Ummm yes. The underfunded, under staffed EPA that couldn't control gross polluters. Please make your case for funding another incompetent government agency.
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You mean, "underfund" then ask why they aren't effective? Reminds me of the State Departments request for funds to keep embassies safe that a Republican Congress denied, then asked why they weren't better protected.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
You mean, "underfund" then ask why they aren't effective? Reminds me of the State Departments request for funds to keep embassies safe that a Republican Congress denied, then asked why they weren't better protected.
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Underfunding is always the excuse for incompetence.
 
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