Sunday, April 12, 2015

JERRY BROWN SHOWERS CALIFORNIA WITH MORE GOVERNMENT









◼ Why is it that the Gov't always makes us pay when it screws up? Now, we get even more gov't control over our life because they refused to build the dams and water infrastructure we need. - Tim Donnelly/Breitbart

...With Brown, there’s always a method to his madness. All you have to do is listen to him.

“I can tell you, from California, climate change is not a hoax,” he said last Sunday on ABC’s This Week.“We’re dealing with it, and it’s damn serious.”

He’s laying the case for permanent government control over parts of our lives that for generations we considered private–all in the name of “global warming” or “climate change” or “unprecedented emergency” or whatever name they’ve given it this week.

If you’ve been paying attention to Governor Brown’s record, this isn’t the first industry that he’s decimated in the name of the environment.

First he empowered the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to wipe the small, independent trucker off the map in the name of clean air and ending Global Warming.

Turns out that the evidence about the level of diesel particulates that affect human health was dubious, and then completely disproven, but the regulations were passed and are now in effect regardles. Brown’s appointee, Chairman Mary Nichols, wasn’t going to let facts get in the way of a “good government” takeover.

Diesel trucks that in every way were compliant with every regulation, suddenly were out of compliance and required replacement. Big companies aggressively sought and won all the government grant money designed to ease the cost of upgrading from CARB. Small operators went under, with trucks that became unsellable in a market destroyed by Brown’s administration.

Absent a strong pool of competitors, transit prices have risen–affecting the cost of virtually every product we buy....

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