Regulations that increase the cost of everything we buy are the functional equivalent of a highly regressive tax on those with lower income, which includes most young persons who are beginning families. These costs should not only be measured in dollars, but in human lives. The children are also victims of the increasingly harsh penalties sought by Green law-enforcement agents. Most of the U.S. radiation monitoring equipment, purchased with hundreds of millions of dollars taken from taxpayers, has been returned to FEMA, to be stored for a period of time prior to ultimate disposal. Groups such as the American Nuclear Society are attempting to acquire some of the meters for educational use.
China now has bases of action in the Western Hemisphere.
The former U.S. naval base at Long Beach has been leased to the China Ocean Shipping Company, Cosco, which is an arm of the Chinese government and an auxiliary to the People's Liberation Army. As Beijing takes over Hong Kong, it also will gain control of the ports of Balboa at the Pacific outlet of the Panama Canal and San Cristobal on the Atlantic. Huge sums are being borrowed from American pension funds and insurance companies and may never be paid back. A Chinese aircraft carrier could be deployed by 2010. Bill Clinton has told Congress that China probably maintains an offensive biological weapons program.