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Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 07:33 PM by SoCalDem
Remediation, recovery, restoration ALWAYS cost MORE than prevention, conservation, & stewardship.
In every single case of a massive f-up we have endured due largely to the republican administrations that brewed up the eventual nightmare scenario, we ended up spending a lot more trying to UN-do the mess they created.
Their standard response?..."Move on, go forward, don't look back, don't play the blame-game. it was bipartisan (thanks DINOS:(..)"
Usually their messes take the form of financial ruin and/or political chicanery , but often there is an environmental degradation that goes hand-in-hand.
We only have what we have.. We cannot "invent" new old-growth forests, or new pristine coastlines, or new mountaintops. We have what we have, and once it's gone, we are only left with the debris, and the horrendous expense of trying to pick up the pieces.
That we have ANY wildlife left, is a testament to their hardiness , since we are determined (as a nation) to make their lives as miserable and tenuous as possible.
There really IS more to life than money, but it's a pretty effective way of "keeping score", and republicans are world-class scorekeepers..
They tend to boil almost every issue down to the dollar & cents angle, and portray Democrats as "wasting" money if every penny spent does not somehow make its way into a donor's portfolio.
Money spent to help people live better, more fulfilling lives, with health & a decent lifestyle, has NO value to them. Money spent to allow wild creatures to just LIVE, is money wasted..in their eyes.
The funny thing is this. EVERYONE has a family member or friend who lives like a republican. These are the cousins, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, buddies who are always ready to tell others how to live their lives, but take little responsibility for their own lives. THEIR way of life is the default, and everyone who disagrees with them are just AT fault.
Taking from the earth is somehow their god-given right, even if it's a finite substance that's being taken, and the extraction/use of it can be dangerous and ill-advised, because NOW is all that matters to them.
Animals live in the now. People have supposedly evolved to appreciate the fact that there is a past we should learn from, a future to plan for, and there is also the now, but it should be of equal weight to the other two.
Perhaps republicanism is just a base instinctual (animalistic) way to live.
Like hoarders who simply must have every scrap of paper that ever came into their home, piled up in their living room, or every dog/cat they can put their hands on..not because they are needed, but because it's just what they do, and because if THEY have it, someone else does not.
I see these buttoned-down republicans on tv every day, spinning their way though any question asked of them. It boggles the mind to see how convoluted their answers are when the question is so cut an dried, and any "normal" person would have NO problem understanding. They see everything as right or left, when the issue is right and wrong.
I've always ascribed to the theory or "what if I am wrong..what's the worst that can happen"?
In an environmental sense, if the "treehuggers" get their way , what happens? cleaner air, cleaner water, more trees, more wildlife.
In a financial sense, if the liberals get their way maybe poor people have a more than they had before,
maybe some people have jobs, that didn't before..
maybe banks & investment companies make less money because they have to follow some rules.....
maybe mega-health services corporations make a little less, and maybe people have better health care they can afford.
Conservation of resources may not make as many people as rich as they want to be, but it might also leave something on the table for the people yet to come.
Republicans are dangerous, and should always be shown for what they are. Democrats proceed at our own risk, if we continue to pretend that they are just a different political "flavor" in the mélange that is the US.
The destruction of the Gulf of Mexico is but a republican exclamation point . Exclamation points usually are at the END , and hopefully enough people will see this as the end of the oil era, but rest assured that there are republicans skulking around , just out of sight, who are already trying to spin their web of deception about this catastrophe, so they can go back to business as usual. They know from experience, that the public has a limited attention span, and if they ramp up their rhetoric, and create enough diversions, they can weather this storm.
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