From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: jerry brown ruining something?
Date: 8 Apr 92 6:30:32 GMT
Organization: Covici Computer Systems

dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska @ VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder, CO) once wrote....
>
>> Jerry Brown and his agenda for the
>> destruction of America
>> by Brian Lantz 
>
>> 
>                 > - Record as governor -
>   > Is this a new Jerry Brown? Absolutely not. In eight
>> years as governor of California between 1974 to 1982,
>> Brown carried forward and amplified the devastating
>> economic policies begun under the Ronald Reagan
>> governorship of 1968-74. As governor, Brown endorsed
>> California's Proposition 13 populist tax revolt, which
>> wrecked local and county government and school board
>
>Brown was stronly against prop 13 during the campaign but
>became a supporter after it passed.
Prop 13 would go right along with his new age philosophy -- so why he 
said he was against it at first I don't know.


>   > Jerry Brown's environmental policies are better
>> known, such as his protection of the Mediterranean
>> Fruitfly. The ``Medfly'' is now endemic, and costs
>
>Brown wasn't "protecting" the medfly, he resisted the
>indiscriminate spraying of pesticides over urban areas. 

Same thing.  To eradicate the fly, you had to move fast and with a
lot of aerial spraying -- he delayed and forced  them as I remember 
it -- to use on the ground methods -- much more costly and less 
effective.  This would go along with his philosophy that human beings 
are no more important than flies.

>> California agriculture millions of dollars a year. Brown's
>> ``Small is Beautiful'' philosophy was used to sell a package
>> of policies to Californians which wrecked the
>> infrastructure of the state. Brown personally killed the
>> construction of the Sundesert nuclear power plant and
>> sabotaged completion of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power
>> plant for years. In the decade encompassing Brown's
>> governorship, industry energy costs skyrocketed by as much
>> as 900%. As a result, industrial jobs shrank and energy
>> consumption, even with a growing state population, grew at
>> less than 2% a year, compared to projections of 6-8%. 
>
>Some of California's utilities "brag" about the lack of growth in
>energy usage.  Conservation has removed the need for costly new
>power plant construction.  Do we measure our wealth by per capita
>energy consumption?  Browns tenure in CA included some of the oil
>shocks so it isn't surprising (nor his fault) that energy costs
>went up.

Well, measuring wealth by energy per capita isn't too bad in a first 
approximation.  As to why the utilities bragged about zero-growth, 
that's there problem.  Brown's destruction of the infrastructure in 
general was evil and he'd do it  again as President -- 
nonwithstanding his rhetoric about reindustrializing the country.  
The only industries he would have is no flush toilets and maybe pot 
processing.

>   > The same insane policies were applied by Governor
>> Brown to other areas of California's basic infrastucture.
>> Under Brown and President Jimmy Carter, dam projects came
>> to a standstill, contributing to today's much-publicized
>> water crisis. Highway and road construction and
>
>I believe there has been a drought.  Virtually all of CA's rivers
>are already dammed.  And he certainly wasn't fighting public
>sentiment in the few that did get blocked.
>

Well, that has nothing to do with the problem, his efforts in 
blocking the water projects did make the water shortage worse -- he 
probably thinks that's good.

>> maintenance ground to a halt. California under Governor
>> Brown built only a quarter as many miles of highways and
>> freeways as it did under Reagan--2,110 miles versus 8,788
>> miles. (For the record, Governor Reagan had already begun
>> disinvesting through neglected road maintenance and
>> non-existent investment on mass transit--$508,000 in eight
>> years.) For example, in 1978-79, California ranked {last}
>> per capita among all states in expenditures on streets,
>> roads, and freeways. In short, there was a total net
>> disinvestment in vital ``hard'' and ``soft'' infrastructure
>> during the Reagan-Brown years. 
>
>   > Today, on the presidential campaign trail, Jerry
>> Brown advocates the same policies, proposing, for example,
>> that he will save $300 billion a year by cutting national
>> energy consumption. This, he slyly states, will create 7
>> million jobs. Where? Brown proposes minimum wage jobs in a
>
>Conservation technologies have tremendous growth protential and tend
>to be much more labor intensive than current industries. 
Exactly the point, much more labor intensive!  The jobs that wouled 
be created would be low-wage jobs of no skill -- not what we want in 
a growing economy.

>Considering that California's economy has only recently hit the doldrums
>after a wildy succesful (too much for many) 1980's, the general comments
>that Brown destroyed the economy in CA doesn't hold water.  


Not so -- the so-called boom of the 80's was just a speculative buble 
-- particularly so in California.  In spite of a shrinking physical 
economy, prices for existing items such as real estate ran away -- 
that is no real recovery.



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