Comments on: Congress Steals from the Clean and Gives to the Dirty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/06/24/congress-steals-from-the-clean-and-gives-to-the-dirty/ A blog about science, politics, and how to let each help the other without compromising them both. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:19:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Despite Solar Advances, the Alt-Energy Tax Breaks Still Aren’t Coming | Reality Base | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/06/24/congress-steals-from-the-clean-and-gives-to-the-dirty/#comment-584 Despite Solar Advances, the Alt-Energy Tax Breaks Still Aren’t Coming | Reality Base | Discover Magazine Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:07:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/06/24/congress-steals-from-the-clean-and-gives-to-the-dirty/#comment-584 [...] of the piece is buried towards the end: the fact that the tax credit for renewable energy—an invaluable credit that Congress has struggled to keep afloat—is getting held up yet again because of the deadlock over offshore drilling. So not only is [...] […] of the piece is buried towards the end: the fact that the tax credit for renewable energy—an invaluable credit that Congress has struggled to keep afloat—is getting held up yet again because of the deadlock over offshore drilling. So not only is […]

]]> By: Marlene http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/06/24/congress-steals-from-the-clean-and-gives-to-the-dirty/#comment-13 Marlene Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:09:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/06/24/congress-steals-from-the-clean-and-gives-to-the-dirty/#comment-13 How true and also true that it is the people that have forgotten that this nation is a constitutional republic and not a democracy and allowed this to happen. Our forefathers made it this way so that mob-rule would not exist and the minority would be protected. This is happening with smoking bans also, junk science created by the big pharmacueticals repeated enough that the majority begins to believe that second hand smoke is harmful even though the Supreme Court of the United States of America has agreed the studies are false, no one is stoping them. All studies PROVING otherwise have been squashed. After all, tobacco is the competition for smoking cessation products and over one BILLION dollars has been spent toward the goal of wiping out the competition for gains of many BILLIONS. Yes, smoking is not good for you, but neither is false propoganda leading to mob-rule and private business owners then losing their private property businesses and their livlihoods. Shame on us! How true and also true that it is the people that have forgotten that this nation is a constitutional republic and not a democracy and allowed this to happen. Our forefathers made it this way so that mob-rule would not exist and the minority would be protected. This is happening with smoking bans also, junk science created by the big pharmacueticals repeated enough that the majority begins to believe that second hand smoke is harmful even though the Supreme Court of the United States of America has agreed the studies are false, no one is stoping them. All studies PROVING otherwise have been squashed. After all, tobacco is the competition for smoking cessation products and over one BILLION dollars has been spent toward the goal of wiping out the competition for gains of many BILLIONS. Yes, smoking is not good for you, but neither is false propoganda leading to mob-rule and private business owners then losing their private property businesses and their livlihoods. Shame on us!

]]> By: Bystander http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/06/24/congress-steals-from-the-clean-and-gives-to-the-dirty/#comment-11 Bystander Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:03:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/06/24/congress-steals-from-the-clean-and-gives-to-the-dirty/#comment-11 All we ever do is sit back and watch the show. I'm still quite young but very much aware that it was long before my time that my countrymen forgot that the Government was created to help the people... and not the other way around. Today I think about distant history and the fate of the Conquistadors. They came, they conquered, they plundered with all their sweat and blood. In the end their rulers took everything they had to give and left them to rot in shame and ignorance. I doubt that the US would willingly follow that lead but I find it difficult to not contemplate the impact of the corruption of the 'ruling class' on common civilians. When will enough of us be able and eager to stand against the multitude of injustices done to us? We suffer for their profit. Hope is meager sustenance. All we ever do is sit back and watch the show. I’m still quite young but very much aware that it was long before my time that my countrymen forgot that the Government was created to help the people… and not the other way around.

Today I think about distant history and the fate of the Conquistadors. They came, they conquered, they plundered with all their sweat and blood. In the end their rulers took everything they had to give and left them to rot in shame and ignorance. I doubt that the US would willingly follow that lead but I find it difficult to not contemplate the impact of the corruption of the ‘ruling class’ on common civilians.

When will enough of us be able and eager to stand against the multitude of injustices done to us? We suffer for their profit.

Hope is meager sustenance.

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