Comments on: The Public Supports Gambling, the Environment http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/02/the-public-supports-gambling-the-environment/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Thu, 24 May 2012 14:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/02/the-public-supports-gambling-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-3879 Glynn Wilson Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:25:27 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6080#comment-3879 Do you find it odd that only 11 percent of people, even in conservative Alabama, favor no government regulation of the environment? These results are counterintuitive to everything people seem to believe about the views and habits of the people of Alabama. But Democrats are afraid to be for the environment, and Republicans act like anyone who is for it is a lefty nutjob. While more people say they attend church maybe once a month or on Easter Sunday once a year, it is doubtful they vote on that basis alone. I wish we had better data on exactly why people say they vote for parties and candidates. Obviously, sex appeal or charisma is as important as the issues, at least to some voters. Do you find it odd that only 11 percent of people, even in conservative Alabama, favor no government regulation of the environment?

These results are counterintuitive to everything people seem to believe about the views and habits of the people of Alabama. But Democrats are afraid to be for the environment, and Republicans act like anyone who is for it is a lefty nutjob.

While more people say they attend church maybe once a month or on Easter Sunday once a year, it is doubtful they vote on that basis alone.

I wish we had better data on exactly why people say they vote for parties and candidates. Obviously, sex appeal or charisma is as important as the issues, at least to some voters.

]]> By: Yana Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/02/the-public-supports-gambling-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-3878 Yana Davis Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:10:50 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6080#comment-3878 There are even fundamentalist Christian leaders who are bigtime environmentalists now, based on the biblical injunction about stewardship. Remaining is the question how best to protect the environment. "Rapacious corporations" get away with pollution now, in large part, because they are actually licensed to do so by the EPA under "administrative law." The effect is to remove their actions, so long as within the limits of those regulations, from the operation of common law. Coming up with a set of clear, tough and easy-to-understand laws on pollution, and returning enforcement to common law juries would be, in my opinion, a much better solution than administrative law handled by easy-to-corrupt-and-manipulate federal bureaucrats. There are even fundamentalist Christian leaders who are bigtime environmentalists now, based on the biblical injunction about stewardship.

Remaining is the question how best to protect the environment. “Rapacious corporations” get away with pollution now, in large part, because they are actually licensed to do so by the EPA under “administrative law.” The effect is to remove their actions, so long as within the limits of those regulations, from the operation of common law.

Coming up with a set of clear, tough and easy-to-understand laws on pollution, and returning enforcement to common law juries would be, in my opinion, a much better solution than administrative law handled by easy-to-corrupt-and-manipulate federal bureaucrats.

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