Environmental Malfeasance: "TX Gov should resign for lies & inaction about climate"

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/03/2017 - 1:25am |

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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/29/opinions/hurricane-harvey-abbott-needs-to-resign-sachs/index.html

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by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/03/2017 - 3:36am

Nice argument but fat chance it is going to register with Texans or with this president or vice-president if he takes over or most of this Congress.

Strikes me that this is the overall ethos he is arguing against:

Let the market do its magic free of federal government restraints including environmental ones! Let the people and companies build where they want subject only to the regulations and zoning etc. that their own local governments decide. Because: jobs jobs jobs! (Even jobs for workers from outside the state! Just no Mexicans, that's something the Feds will help insure!) The local corporations and people are wise and know what they want and need in the area of environmental clean up and future regulation, profit will guide the way

Further, there is also this one: god gives us natural disasters in order for us to use our brains that he gave us to continually overcome them and not only that, get rich doing so! Prayer faith and gumption are all you need....

I'd even venture a guess that most Texans believe these kind of things more strongly than the current people in power in DC.

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 12:08am

p.s.: I did not know the governor was in a wheelchair until I saw him on TV during Harvey. I looked up the reason. From wikipedia, offered without further comment about possible lectures about relying on the gummint when misfortune occurs instead of gumption, prayer and good lawyering

In 1984, at age 26, Abbott was paralyzed below waist-level when an oak tree fell on him while he was jogging following a storm.[5][6] He had two steel rods implanted in his spine, underwent extensive rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston, and has used a wheelchair ever since.[7][8] He sued the homeowner and negotiated an insurance settlement worth more than US$10 million, resulting in payouts of US$14,000 a month.[9]

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 12:15am

Would be awful if normal people tried to get real health care, rather than suing someone for $10 million the way real independent types handle it. God works in mysterious ways - first strikes you down, then lifts you out, or at least gives you a huge lifelong subsidy.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 6:47am

Environmental Malfeasance: "TX Gov should resign for lies & inaction about climate"

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