Every so often a news reports comes
in that, after years of litigation, a huge corporation
has been convicted of doing major damage to the
environment. They are then fined a few million bucks.
This is a joke. Those few millions
wouldn't pay for the paper clips used by that corporation
over those same years. The fine means nothing. If
people are committing a purposeful crime, which
you must prove in cases like this, you should JAIL
those responsible, no matter how rich they are.
But liberals and self-styled environmentalists,
who claim to be tough on corporate greed, never
propose such a thing. No corporation will be deterred
by a threat of such a fine, and we all know it.
Corporate fines don't work, and liberals support
them.
If rich people purposely commit crimes,
you must jail them for it, or stop playing games.
An environmental policy that would
work is like any policy that would work. Regulations
that work produce few rules, but every single rule
is ruthlessly enforced.
If you rigorously enforce the rules,
that assures that the rules will be few. People
are careful about passing restrictions if they know
they have to obey them.
My approach to the environment or
to education or to crime would work, because it
is intended to work. I want a clean world, I want
crime down, I want better education. So, my policies
would be designed to produce these things.
Liberals are not primarily interested
in a clean world or less crime or better education.
Liberal proposals are made to push liberal causes.
The left is not interested in reducing
crime. Its real aim is to take guns out of private
hands.
Good education does not really concern
them. What they want is to RE-EDUCATE children into
leftist ideas.
And in the case of the environment,
it is not accidental that all the people who used
to push outright socialism are now calling themselves
"environmentalists." What they want is
not clean air but government control.
As you can see, real liberal goals
have nothing to do with a policy that WORKS. In
fact, a policy that actually SOLVED problems would
get in the way.
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