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What comes first in Arkansas?

You know it's the dollars. Certainly not the environment. Certainly not when the decider is the Pollution Control and Ecology Commission. John Brummett sings the refrain today.

Posted by Max Brantley on July 1, 2008 06:26 AM | Permalink

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It isn't just Arkansas. The real constituency of every government in the U.S.A is the owners of the capital to create businesses and industries. The environment (which is to say material, natural resources), like labor, will cease to be exploited by some of that constituency only when that is not in the interest of a more powerful part of that constituency. Florida, for example, is not more enlightened than Arkansas; off-shore oil drilling will take place or not, depending on whether tourism capital is more powerful than oil capital. Voters are not ends in themselves. They are the means used by the governments' constituents.

This is the American democracy that we are trying to export to the rest of the world.

Posted by: Snapback | July 1, 2008 07:32 AM

Hope everyone reads Bob Herbert in NYT this morn,,,OH HAPPY DAY.
Can't imagine why anyone would want to be prez for the next 4 years and try to
mop up the cheney/bush mess.

clicky

Posted by: jazzy | July 1, 2008 08:14 AM

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