Atlas is Shrugging in California
Here were I live in California we have experienced months of air so smoky that visibility often drops to a mile or less. We've probably lost hundreds of people - old people who burned in their trailer park, people who got stuck in their cars trying to flee the fires, etc. Multiple massive blazes have been apparently started by a huge pseudo-governmental utility company who, after many years of charging us 30 cents/kWh in order to maintain their system, failed to do so - resulting in many blackouts and failures resulting in fires. The dam that starts our water system was almost lost due to the state deciding not to spend the money they taxed to maintain it. So, as I drove to work today on roads that are turning to potholes and gravel (after gas tax laid over gas tax revenues, resulting in the highest gas prices in the nation, was not spent on the roads it was intended for) I decided to start my audio book of Atlas Shrugged. Tomorrow, my kids' school is closed because our schools (the most tax-expensive school system in the nation) are such old technology that the air in the classrooms isn't nearly as safe as the air in my 40 year old house. Within the next year we'll have the most expensive health care system in the world, with revenue collected at the business end of a gun. Traveling on these crappy roads, while my kidneys get jarred, is much more enjoyable listening to Atlas Shrugged. It puts it all into perspective.
Thank you Ayn Rand. And, thank you Galt's Gulch Online...
Thank you Ayn Rand. And, thank you Galt's Gulch Online...
With no "management" of forests, trees survived forest fires, insects, logging and invasion by humans. Nature adjusted. Our management based on ignorance has the expected result. It is consistent, however with our modern approach to science, economics and politics so we will just have to standby while nature thins the herd.
Who is John Galt?
Sounds like there's 49 of those for you to pick from.
My Alabama ain't bad. Tennessee and Florida has no state tax. .
One thing that put me off while I was visiting a few years ago was a tour guide telling us that they have MAX 7 days of supplies there. And then.... it's full-on chaos.
Hawaii has some potential pitfalls in a crisis.
Moonbeam doesn't think he is accountable (was anyone made responsible for anything under Hussein?). He is still chasing his high speed train to nowhere that will put the State in permanent red for a long time.
But hey, we welcome the South American migrants now in Tijuana with open arms! Harris went as far recently that she saw similarities between ICA and the KKK.
These rabid leftist are trying to outdo each other: who can come up with a more unbelievable or outrageous lie. The tragedy for the people that eventually they believe their lies and try to steer the country to this false direction.
The un-capitalized names and titles in the above text are an intentional lack of respect.
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I could never go back to CA or OR, and never Hawaii, not matter how beautiful.
Look up Ron Arnold's Trashing the Economy, 2nd edition, for a summary of all the major viro pressure group lobby organizations, what they have been doing, and the enormous sums of money they have been spending on it. The book was published in the 1990s and the money and power has increased a lot since then.
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"...and "natural" is not the standard of what humans should tolerate." Agreed as my area and home are now covered in ice and snow and yet I'm sitting here in a t-shirt typing away as the gas furnace turns on automatically when required.
I do, however, don't believe millions of acres of forest can be managed to the point where these fires will be totally avoided. Perhaps some management around populated areas could reduce the magnitude of disaster, though. Forest management is far from my field of expertise so my comments may not be worth much regarding same.
Gov Brown proposed changing the rules to allow more tree cutting so as to thin out the forests. ( so presumably to reduce fire risk).
The enviros objected, they wanted more restrictions to reduce cutting.
So, Brown had proposed some measures in the right direction (inadequate perhaps? ), there were 'ardent environmentalists' who may have agreed with Brown, but there were even more ardent enviromentalists who were able to stop the change.
Can you confirm?
In some states, such as California, they have gotten away with more of this than others. The restrictions and forced wilderness preservationism has led to the wild fires such as the current disaster, but this isn't the first time; it has been happening for decades. It is worse in places like California in part because of the worse restrictions and in part because of the dryer and more windy conditions there.
Against that background and the threat of worse fires, Brown gave in and partially reduced existing restrictions on cutting trees despite opposition to the reform from the viro pressure groups, who want even more restrictions. Obviously the partial reduction in wilderness controls has been too little too late to stop the wild fires.
The sentence in the article, "Brown urged state lawmakers to loosen restrictive logging regulations put in place to appease environmentalists", means the restrictions were originally imposed to appease the viros, not that loosening them was to appease the viros.
The viros are forced through public embarrassment and fear of losing political power to now "admit" that "some thinning" is required, but they want complete control over what is thinned and where. The "admission" is like their concession that some energy production is necessary -- they just won't approve of any that is practical on a large scale.