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expensive government wasteland

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EPA Groundwater Remedy Completion Strategy May 2014-1
Now, see, your average Leftist will look at this hot mess of a conclusion and get a warm feeling in her belly that the government is out there on the forefront of pollution, actively protecting her.

But the language says nothing, does nothing, solves nothing, recommends no specific remediation, and only suggests that it would be good if some unspecified person kept thinking about something unspecified, to move the world forward in an expedient manner toward a goal that could take a very long time to accomplish – that we already know! – undo the effects of man.

The ultimate irony is all of those EPA goals will involve reestablishing a prior status or condition to the environment – that is, turn the clock backward – the only way the EPA knows to go forward. But since we’ve all seen where we’ve been, why on earth do we need a huge expensive government agency to tell us what we already know?

“Moving forward with the end in mind.” Good grief! Make up an acronym – an RAO in this case – and feed it to the rubes out there in flyover country. This stuff rivals the brilliant pronouncements of Peter Sellers’ Chauncey Gardner character.

God only knows how much this study cost. But I guess if it helps a Leftist sleep better at night, it must be worth it because there’s just no other point to this pablum.

carts before horses

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In his book The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science, Tim Ball, Phd, reported that on July 5th, 2005, Phil Jones, Directer of the CRU [Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia], wrote in an email to a colleague;

“If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political it is being selfish.”

Therefore, climate change is an unproven hypothesis – an experiment waiting for corroborating data. Mr. Jones is too generous in calling this science. This is a belief system.

Let your mind imagine an estimate of the opportunity costs incurred the world over from all of the unproven hypotheticals that have been translated into public policy without any corroborating evidence. Imagine what could have been done with all those resources, all those man-hours, and all that energy, had the work been available to accomplish necessary objectives, rather than hyped-up political fantasies. Imagine all of the real problem solutions foregone while men chased rainbows.

A man can only do so much in a lifetime. We should cull out the unproven hypotheticals from our public policies, no matter how sexy they sound. Translation – government has no business getting involved with 90% of what it attempts to do.

Drowning in good intentions

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“1. The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. It has a duty to each and every individual that it serves and must respect their human rights. At the same time, it has a wider social duty to promote equality through the services it provides and to pay particular attention to groups or sections of society where improvements in health and life expectancy are not keeping pace with the rest of the population.”

The National Health Service Constitution

“The Constitution also contains pledges that the NHS is committed to achieve. Pledges go above and beyond legal rights. This means that pledges are not legally binding but represent a commitment by the NHS …”

The Handbook to the NHS Constitution

to zone or not to zone

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ELBERT COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY
RESOLUTIONS FOR PLATFORM
2012

(partial list  –  all passed at Assembly 5/24/2012)

12. Be it resolved, the Elbert County Republican Party support and encourage responsible growth, respecting the rights of all county residents consistent with the goal of preserving the unique rural and natural character of Elbert County.

15. Be it resolved, the Elbert County Republican Party requests that the elected Board of County Commissioners implement the noxious weed control plan as directed by State Law.

16. Be it resolved, the Elbert County Republican Party request that the elected Board of County Commissioners adopt, implement and enforce a 300 year water supply plan based on actual water usage.

17. Be it resolved, the Elbert County Republican Party request that the elected Board of County Commissioners adopt responsible planning and development measures to ensure that growth pay its own way and ensure that new infrastructure demanded by new development is not subsidized by the taxpayer without a vote of said taxpayer.

– OR –

21. Be it resolved, the Elbert County Republican Party object to the expansion of Elbert County zoning laws.

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Which will it be?  You can’t have it both ways.

This schizophrenic disconnect in the Republican Party Platform, approved yesterday at the 2012 County Assembly, is another symptom of our Elbert County uni-party implementation of the Republican Party.

Now, you could say the Resolutions Committee for the assembly failed in their mission to provide an internally consistent set of resolutions for the platform, however, it’s not really their responsibility to resolve this political question.

And, you could say that the Executive Committee of the Party is responsible because they suspended debate on the resolutions by assembly delegates, and thereby precluded the assembled body of Republicans from reaching a compromise.  But after tolerating season after electoral season of mixed-use Republicanism, it would have been highly contentious, perhaps even violent, for a bunch of lefties and conservatives to work their substantive differences out in the space of a few minutes of polite assembly “dialoging.”

Besides, these issues cannot be legitimately resolved by a set of self-selected delegates numbering less than 1 hundredth of 1 percent of the population.  Without a causal connection between voters and voting objects, be it candidate or issue, consent of the voters is cut off.

Enfranchised voters are the only interest group who can legitimately resolve this political question.

The Founders labored and argued for years to conceive constitutional methods to enfranchise voters and permit them to be governed legitimately.  Sadly, our caucus assembly system which disenfranchises voters at large does not meet that standard.  And muddying the preliminary waters by empowering a single party to clear both left and conservative candidates is a giant step further away from voter enfranchisement.

The way to fix this conundrum is to return Elbert County to a two-party system.  Would the Democrat Party tolerate a bunch of conservatives diluting their precious social and entitlement agendas?  Absolutely not!  Why then do conservatives around here allow the left to tromp all over their Republican Party?

The way to fix this problem is to nip it in the bud.  Make the change here:

ELBERT COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE BYLAWS

Article III. POLICY

Section 4. Endorsements. The ECR acting as an entity, or the ECR elected officers shall not publicly support or endorse any Republican candidate that is involved in a primary who could represent Elbert County residents in a partisan race.

Change it to read something like the following:

ECR elected officers shall substantively analyze all Republican candidates with respect to information publicly available in local history as it relates to each candidates alignment with the Republican Oath and the Elbert County Republican Party Platform.  Officers shall report their findings to Precinct Committeepeople in a timely manner as the findings become known.

As things currently stand, ECR elected officers must withhold a relevant body of knowledge from the rest of the caucus and assembly process.  While done in the interest of fairness, the left games that good intention and turns it against the Republican Party from the inside.

Playing fair only works in an ethical environment.  The left have never played fair and Republicans should stop fooling themselves about it.

success in social services

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I hope that the one-year performance review of the Jail Based Behavioral Health Service program contains outcome data that links program expenditures to actual reductions in recidivism and hospitalization rates in the target population.  The good intentions surrounding social services programs make them politically attractive to theorize about and establish, however, their success tends to be measured by growth in the target population served, when a better measurement would be how much the size of the target population has been reduced by the program.

Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Aristotle

"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."

Karl Popper

“A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”