From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Newsgroups: talk.environment,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: Gore Calls for a Real Environmental President
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:34:17 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug14.192539.19672@den.mmc.com> sims@possum.den.mmc.com (John Sims) writes:
>In article <-b3marn.crisp@netcom.com> crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug11.031138.13065@samba.oit.unc.edu> Nigel.Allen@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Nigel Allen) writes:
>>>Press release from the Clinton/Gore Campaign.
>>>
>>> Gore Calls for a Real Environmental President 
>>> To: National Desk, Political and Environment Writer 
>>> 
>>>   LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a 
>>>statement of Sen. Al Gore: 
>>> 
>>>   Once again, the Bush-Quayle administration is the on the wrong 
>>>road, moving backward, trying to convince the American people that 
>>>they can't afford a safe, clean environment for their kids. 
>>>   The American people know that's not true.  And, they know they 
>>>can't afford another four years of Bush and Quayle.  Protecting our 
>>>environment means creating jobs, increasing profit, and strengthening 
>>>our economy. 
>>>   Ironically, the Japanese are saying that the fastest growing 
>>>market in the history of world business is the market for the new 
>>>products, processes, and technologies that protect the environment 
>>>and encourage economic progress.  We can take advantage of that 
>>>opportunity or we can face a future polluted by the Bush-Quayle 
>>>administration's short-sighted self interest in protecting the 
>>>polluters instead of the American people. 
>>
>>Now this is very interesting. Here we have the VP candidate telling
>>us we need an environmentally conscious president. I find it very
>>ironic that Bill Clinton's home state, Arkansas, has rivers polluted
>>with chicken feces and yet Bill is tooling around on private jets
>>owned by the company doing the polluting! So the Republicans are 
>>protecting the polluters instead of the people? Hogwash!
>>
>>This Gore guy sure is good at exposing the fact that his boss-hopeful
>>is talking out of both corners of his mouth!
>
>Not too surprising, though.  I grew up in the Tennessee valley area.
>The TVA runs a coal-fired electricity generating plant on the river,
>about 10 miles from my mom's house.  The environment hasn't fared very
>well, with lots of the forest being damaged by SO2, ash, etc.  Uncle
>Albert doesn't seem to care enough about the environment to clean up
>his own back yard, especially when TVA is one of the larger employers
>in the area.

OK, let me explain a little bit about how things work in this country.

Al Gore is a U.S. Senator representing the state of Tennessee.  As such,
he has NO control over what goes on in Tennesee.  A U.S. Senator can only
pass laws for the Federal government.

But let's pretend that he could pass laws for the state of Tennessee.  If
this were true, he would still have to convince others in the legislature
to vote with him.  If the majority of the lawmakers in Tennessee saw the
political dangers of voting against the TVA, it would be very hard for
someone (like Gore) to get legislation passed to clean things up.

alan

P.S. as a side issue, I am sure the original poster actually knows how things
work and just ignored it to make his point.  However, I have seen an
incredible number of postings from people who don't have a clue about how
our government works.  Now when I was in junior high school in a small school
in middle Georgia (26 miles from Plains), all this stuff was crammed down my
throat and I remember most of it, even though I haven't used it in years.
Don't tell me that I actually got an education in that crummy place.
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