vision2020@moscow.com: Re: in reply to andy's most recent

Re: in reply to andy's most recent

WIEST JAMES ANDREW (wiest921@cs.uidaho.edu)
Fri, 28 Apr 1995 07:47:04 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, RAY PANKOPF wrote:

> ** Proprietary **
>
> just a quick comment...
>
> in andy's most recent creation, he tosses out a flip phrase to the effect
> that the epa "terrorizes citizens."
>
> anybody who really wants to understand what "environmental terrorism"
> really is should bop back and experience the industrial revolution, pre
> 1920s, when greed was good, corpororate "freedom" to foul "private
> property" ran unhindered, and the epa wasn't even a gleam in anybody's
> eye.
>
>
>
>

No one(even me) is denying that abuses occur and that we need some laws.
Anarchy is not a good form of gov't either. Those companies were
imposing massive negative externalities onto others with no cost to
themselves and I would have challenged them as well.

Cheers,

Andy


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