Wretchard wrote this week about a town hall with a leading Aussie political figure. It turned on the way that politics is making the most obviously necessary things impossible. Power generation was his top example.
As a New England native who moved to TX, I don't have a lot of sympathy for those decisions. Nor do they surprise me. After the jump in oil prices in the '70s, some editorial pages featured letters from my father which advocated nationalizing the oil companies. Oh well.
BTW, there was some drilling off the Massachusetts coast back in the '70s. I doubt the drilling was visible from the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport.
coyote blog posted a story a while ago about a California man who wanted to open a bagel shop- it had previously been a small bakery or some such. He had to deal with both the Cali restaurant rules 500 pages or so, and the building rules- after putting in two years and 250,000 bucks, trying to meet the requirements he gave up before ever making a bagel.
I put this article up on FB over a month ago. I maintain that much environmentalism, at least in New England, is aesthetic rather than concerned about dangers or hardships, now or in the future. I'm all for having things look nice, but such things come at a cost, and the poor have the hardest time with it.
Wretchard wrote this week about a town hall with a leading Aussie political figure. It turned on the way that politics is making the most obviously necessary things impossible. Power generation was his top example.
ReplyDeleteThose aren't the only examples. The Progressive-Democrats in Congress are very close to "everything" with their "No" to anything Trump or Republican.
ReplyDeleteAnd with their "Not either" after the fact. I've been fairly successful in my investments, but $1,000 over a year aren't crumbs in my pocketbook.
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As a New England native who moved to TX, I don't have a lot of sympathy for those decisions. Nor do they surprise me. After the jump in oil prices in the '70s, some editorial pages featured letters from my father which advocated nationalizing the oil companies. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteBTW, there was some drilling off the Massachusetts coast back in the '70s. I doubt the drilling was visible from the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport.
Regarding politics and citizen input making it impossible to get things done, look at this recent Instapundit posting. IT’S COME TO THIS: San Francisco Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Turn His Own Laundromat Into an Apartment Building. Now the city wants the laundromat studied to see if it is a historic resource.Apparently there are some neighbors who object to an apartment building being built. In a big city.
coyote blog posted a story a while ago about a California man who wanted to open a bagel shop- it had previously been a small bakery or some such. He had to deal with both the Cali restaurant rules 500 pages or so, and the building rules- after putting in two years and 250,000 bucks, trying to meet the requirements he gave up before ever making a bagel.
ReplyDeleteThe current top post at Coyote Blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2018/02/so-you-think-you-have-property-rights-in-this-country.html
I put this article up on FB over a month ago. I maintain that much environmentalism, at least in New England, is aesthetic rather than concerned about dangers or hardships, now or in the future. I'm all for having things look nice, but such things come at a cost, and the poor have the hardest time with it.
ReplyDeletePlenty of this in California, not the least of which is water storage infrastructure.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemen_on_the_land
ReplyDeleteThey don't seem all that effective under human law. Under Divine Law, they are probably a lot closer to the source.