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Re:America the Shrunken by hga on Sunday May 04, 2014 @01:46PM (#7695056)
By economic I mean things like the absolute prioritization of so called endangered species (weasel words because they often turn out not to be) over human jobs and when you come down to it lives. The spotted owl being used to shut down the Pacific Northwest lumber industry, a bait fish being used to shut down a lot of California farming, etc.

Then there's general "environmentalism" and NIMBY/BANANAism that broken the compact between the city and countryside in California in the '70s, canceling the water projects necessary to keep up with the population growth of the former. Per farmer and intellectual Victor Davis Hanson, this year that's going to kill half a trillion dollars worth of agriculture, as an inevitable string of droughts require sending all the water to the cities.

Or the precipitous shutdown of the US coal industry; yeah, the stuff is extremely nasty and pretty much anything but bogus renewables (that can't scale, nor meet any demand cycle without even more expensive storage) would be better, but the speed and way this is being done is evil. And disproportionately hits fly-over country.

Or look at the XL pipeline, or unrestricted illegal, and way too great legal immigration. Etc. etc. etc.

All these are destroying working class jobs and lives, and the middle class ones that are based on them.

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