Here's a perfect example;
The audio is poor, so here is the quote;
“Nearly every day without fail…men stream to these [mining] operations looking for work in Walker County. They can’t pay their mortgage. They can’t pay their car note. They can’t feed their families. They don’t have health insurance. And as I stand here today, I just…you know…what’s the use? I got a permit to open up an underground coal mine that would employ probably 125 people. They’d be paid wages from $50,000 to $150,000 a year. We would consume probably $50 million to $60 million in consumables a year, putting more men to work. And my only idea today is to go home. What’s the use? I see these guys—I see them with tears in their eyes—looking for work. And if there’s so much opposition to these guys making a living, I feel like there’s no need in me putting out the effort to provide work for them. So…basically what I’ve decided is not to open the mine. I’m just quitting. Thank you.”
Remember, it's more important that the crusader at the Sierra Club or the soccer mom who is bored and wants to launch a safety campaign against pollution or the college kid protester who needs to protest something, it's more important THEY feel good about themselves than that the rest of us have jobs, careers, and a future.
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He is my hero. What courage and honesty!
That's exactly right. And what's worse, they'll use the crisis *they* created to impose extraordinarily draconian state control to 'fix' the problem for 'the people.'
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Reminds me of something that happened in my childhood community on the west coast, nearly 20 years ago. Some of the specifics are a little murky in my memory, but the core of it is as follows...
This was a town where forestry was a big employer. The area's logging company wanted to build an expansion, and ran head-on into fierce opposition from part of the townsfolk (primarily those who weren't directly employed in the industry).
There was plenty of caterwauling about the environmental impact (and plenty of greens from outside the town threw their weight into the fight), but that was mostly a smokescreen for old-fashioned NIMBYism and property values / waterfront scenery. Lots of mud was thrown.
The logging company eventually capitulated. No expansion would be built. In fact, since they were apparently so unwelcome and such a blight upon the 'charming character' of the town, they announced they were going to start shifting operations elsewhere (where they had the capacity to grow). You win, we'll leave and trouble you no more.
As I said, the particulars are half forgotten. But I can still clearly remember the TV coverage of the lead organizers of the pro and anti townsfolk factions as they met outside the community hall after the announcement. Mr. Anti was ashen-faced and speechless, and could only nod while looking at his feet while Mr. Pro (who'd been his friend, I think) simply said "You've killed our town".
Yup, the problem all "those people" ( crusaders, soft leftists, etc.) is that it's not what you can see, it's what didn't happen and thus can't be seen.
"see we enacted all these laws & regulations, and the economy still gre3 by 0.3% , not that harmful, eh?"
Answer: If we hadn't had those regulations the growth would have been 30%, but everyone gave up. Any by the way since the regulations stopped anyone from trying, the technology that would have made that those regulations pointless never came about.
Of course "no one" can "foresee" the the future so the answer is fictional, and leftists and crusaders, those visionaries "par excellance" don't believe it.
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