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calimary

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9. Well, THAT sounds like a bad joke.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 08:47 PM

Nov 11

“He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet.”

I don’t see how you square that. Unleashing the power of business AND maintaining “the highest environmental standards” for clean air and clean water. There’s no way to have all those things turned all the way up at the same time. Something’s gonna be kicked down into Lower-PriorityLand. And business will demand and damn near kill for first place in that pecking order.

In the Great Lust for Dollars, clean air and clean water will be talked about, alright, - and reliably IGNORED.

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