I have no issue with allowing people who have low income and no benefits access to affordable health care, we should have been trying to figure this out years ago. But there is an issue with forcing people to accept it if they do not want it. You would not be alright with a gang forcing someone to pay for "protection" so why would you allow the government to do the same? If you have a moral standard then you must hold that standard to everyone no exceptions. Force is force even if it is the government dishing it out. Stand for Freedom
After reading this article I would like to ask the author to take a close look at Louisiana Governor Bobby Jendhal. During the Presidential campaign he made several trips campaigning for Romney. It is unclear who paid for these trips. He is also attempting to privatize everything from healthcare to education. I believe our prison system is already privatized. We already have the "Right To Work" here. Our state is going to hell in a hand basket. He wants to raise taxes on everything and for everyone, except for large corporations in which he claims will bring jobs to the state. He refuses to implement the Healthcare Act. He's closing all the charity hospitals. The poor and working class of this state are suffering because of him. How could I find out if he has connections to the Koch brothers? He has his eye on the "Whitehouse". God forbid!!!
The article you cite is not from an environmental expert. "Larry Kaufmann is an economic consultant based in Madison." Seems like spin to me Bart. Wisconsin does have more stringent standards than the minimum required to meet EPA requirements, that is what's kept our state so beautiful and our people so healthy. The mining company is perfectly capable of meeting the standards to get at that ore, they just happen to know that they can get them relaxed by the current administration. You might take note of the fact that not every job from mining is in the mining itself, environmental compliance is valid economic activity. Engineers, technicians, consultants etc. all make big bucks off of the permitting process, along with all the administrative support that compiles data into reports, prints it etc.
You and far too many others are being taken in by their spin and sacrificing healthy water, fishing, recreation, drinking water etc. etc. etc. so they can make more profit than they would by complying with our regulations. It is extremely sad. You think EPA standards are protective enough, but if you live in Wisconsin then maybe you should consider the disturbing water quality and health impacts of states who are more lax with environmental regulations.
I suppose the writing is on the wall but if you live anywhere near this mine I would highly recommend that if you have infants, or your wife is pregnant or nursing, or your parents or elderly that you purchase water from elsewhere. I hope your views are right, history shows us that you are probably wrong. Wisconsin used to believe it was best to err on the side of nature and the environment. Too bad it's going the Koch-Alec-Walker way. Bet the jobs won't live up to the claims either and the profits will end up in the Caymen Islands too.
The corruption in the state of FL has been noted by the rest of us starting with Jeb Bush, his brothers re-election, and the machines that hung up when his brothers name was not selected.
I am thinking that this is rampart in all states, and it seems to be coming from the same party.
We need to wake up and vote as many as we can out in 2014, possibly catching the rest of them in 2016. Our country is going to go downhill fast if this type stuff is not stopped.
Maybe prison time in the very prison they created, would be a first step.
Even the Isthmus, probably the 2nd most liberal newspaper (behind the Shepherd Express), agrees with not having a disparity between states. Currently, Minnesota and Michigan already have iron mines with do not produce toxins which come from sulfide ores (copper, zinc and gold).
Nobody is saying throw away the EPA standards as we are so high above them! All this over regulation does is reduce the workforce in this state!!!
I wish PR would heed its own words on "spin and disinformation", and actually find out the true environmental impact, not just spew out what ever the far left has to say!
Here is the link to the Isthmus (from Madison):
http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=38786
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