Alan Greenspan's War on America's New
Deal Democracy
"No
one has taken on the task of bankrupting
the US Treasury with greater zeal than
Alan Greenspan. The wizened Fed-master
has taken burgeoning budget surpluses
and turned them into massive debt in
less than four years."
"As
the debt increases, our prospects grow
dimmer."
Clinton/Greenspan: China Belongs
China is one of the world's biggest
economies, Greenspan said, even though
it has barely begun to realize its full
potential.
"(The Chinese
economy) should expand further in
response to WTO participation,"
Greenspan said.
After Greenspan's brief address, Mr.
Clinton spoke about China's human rights
problems, and the security implications
of admitting the country into the WTO.
Greenspan's Remarks At the Chinese
Embassy:
"The
addition of the Chinese economy to the
global marketplace will result in a more
efficient worldwide allocation of
resources, and will raise standards of
living in China and its trading
partners. Should China accept the
challenge of international competition
embodied in World Trade Organization
membership. It will doubtless promote
internal economic development, encourage
the adoption of modern technologies, and
contribute to lifting its citizens out
of poverty.
Clinton's
Remarks At The Chinese Embassy
"The
only people in China who want this vote
to fail are the more reactionary
elements who do not want to give up
control. And they need America as a
continuing enemy so they do not have to
give up control."
[By the inverse, our
participation in the WTO means that 'we'
gave up control of our economy too - and
it shows as the wealth of our nation is
being drained - VLD]
Gore - on Reinventing Government
Fourth and finally,
strengthening community and
civil society. In this way,
reinvention and reform are
about something far grander
than the gears of government,
or even the smooth workings of
democracy. David Osborne,
author of the landmark book
"Reinventing Government,"
talked about the need to
"steer, not row." A government
that tries to fulfill every
function itself -- a
government that tries to be an
omnipresent welfare state --
will only leave its people in
a catatonic state. Smaller,
more empowering government
unleashes the energy of
ordinary families and
communities. That's what
President Clinton and I tried
to do with welfare reform --
setting national standards for
moving people from welfare to
work, but then letting states
and local communities shape
the reforms that work best for
them.
That's why, in the United
States, we started treating
our citizens as "customers" --
the way the best private
businesses treat their
customers. Great Britain
pioneered this notion of
service to the citizen in the
late 1980's. The Danish
actually set maximum response
times when citizens need help.
The French define their goals
as putting "the citizen in the
core of public service" -- for
instance, they now can deliver
passports in less than one
hour!
[What the Clinton-Gore reinvention of
government actually did was to dismantle
our government - putting into the hands
of corporations and their communist
partners. 'Citizen as Customer' is
a devaluation of the citizenship.
This was a step towards globalization
and the dissolution of our nation.
The bit about 'strengthening community
and civil society' is the end-around run
of our elected officials. The
'partners' are the foundations,
corporations and non-profit
organizations. They are the
carriers of the communist agenda from
the United Nations. Corporations
profit from this relationship because
the can 'buy-off' the partners and the
congress in order that they can continue
on with business as usual minus
government oversight and regulation.
Here is what they mean by 'public'
participation. They don't mean
'public', they mean the ecology
communists. The
ecology communists follow the UN Agenda
21.... imposing it on local
communities and they are funded by one
of the worst environmental polluters in
the world. This is what
'public-private partnerships' are all
about - implementing communism on
people... your tax dollars and
corporations for profit.
btw... Bush Sr. put into place the
legislation to establish the taxpayer
funded network of communist minions
under the guise of 'volunteer' service
to America. They are paid to
appear as constituents for the communist
UN agenda. See
1000 Points of Light Foundation
]
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PARTNERSHIP FOR
WETLANDS
CONSERVATION (Senate
- June 06, 1990)
Mr. THURMOND. Mr.
President, on May
23, 1990, the Dow
Chemical Co.
announced a new
4-year partnership
for wetlands
conservation with
Ducks Unlimited ,
Inc., the Nature
Conservancy, and the
National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation
to preserve and
protect North
America's endangered
wetlands.
During a press
conference, which
was held in my
Capitol office, Dow
presented the first
installment of a $3
million contribution
for wetlands
protection and
restoration. This
donation represents
the largest
corporate financial
donation ever to
benefit the North
American Waterfowl
Management Plan [NAWMP]
and demonstrates
Dow's dedication to
environmental
conservation and
protection.
In my home State
of South Carolina,
we have some of the
most beautiful
wetlands in the
country. The Ace
basin, another fine
example of a joint
public and private
venture, preserves
350,000 acres of
wetlands in the
Palmetto State. I am
pleased that
$500,000 of Dow's
contribution will go
directly to fund the
Ace basin project.
Peach Point in Texas
and the Hillman
Marsh in Ontario,
Canada will also
receive funds for
wetlands acquisition
and restoration
projects of the
NAWMP.
The partnership
established by the
Dow Corp. with
Ducks Unlimited
, Inc., the Nature
Conservancy, and the
National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation
represents the type
of cooperation and
commitment that will
make programs such
as the NAWMP work.
As a result, our
wetlands and
waterfowl will be
preserved in all
their natural
splendor. It is
clear that a strong
economy and a strong
ecology can coexist.
Book Review - Earth in the Balance by Al
Gore
Consumed by apocalyptic
visions, Gore writes of "an
ecological Kristallnacht," and
declares, "the ferocity of
[industrial civilization's]
assault on the earth is
breathtaking, and the horrific
consequences are occurring so
quickly as to defy our
capacity to recognize them."
Gore in the Balance
"Of no help is Gore's
intellectual style. Parts of
Earth in the Balance are
hashes of New Age cliches
(Gaia, the Goddess, Indians'
higher spiritual plane, the
"psychic pain" underlying
modern civilization), and
Gore's method throughout is to
think not deductively but in
similes, comparing everything
to everything. (That's why
classical economics is like
antisemitism.) The result is
that much of the book comes
off as simply screwy, the work
of a dilettante who has
dangerously overestimated his
intellectual competence."
Earth Sense in the Balance
This
week, Bush-administration
officials are meeting in
Vienna to discuss a United
Nations plan to globalize
environmental regulation.
Dubbed the "Strategic Approach
to Global Management of
Chemicals" or SAICM, the
program is anything but
strategic.
SAICM would
attempt to regulate
basically all
substances in
commerce — manmade
and natural — and
would attempt to
manage all the
world's solid and
hazardous waste. And
in time, it could
easily spill into
other areas — air
and water.
If you read the documents
published by
SAICM negotiators, you
might think you are reading Al
Gore's 1992 book, Earth in the
Balance, in which he proposed
making the environment the
"central organizing principle
for civilization." In the
chapter titled "A Global
Marshall Plan," Gore outlines
a utopian vision for a
"Strategic Environment
Initiative" through which
world regulators could
effectively "discourage and
phase out" supposedly
"inappropriate technologies
and the same time develop and
disseminate a new generation
of environmentally benign
substitutes."
This sounds an awful lot
like SAICM's "Global Action
Plan." Among 288 "concrete
measures" proposed in SAICM's
plan are intentions to
"restrict availability" of
"highly toxic pesticides;"
substitute "highly toxic
pesticides;" "promote
substitution of hazardous
chemicals;" "regulate the
availability, distribution and
use of pesticides;" "halt the
sale of and recall products"
that pose "unacceptable
risks;" "eliminate the use" of
certain "hazardous chemicals;"
and so on.
Such policies would be
pushed by an international
chemicals bureaucracy and
implemented by "stakeholders"
— government, industry, and
nongovernmental organizations.
Somehow we are supposed to
believe that these parties
know better than the rest of
us — the actors in the world
marketplace who must live with
the consequences of such
decisions.
While SAICM negotiators
don't want to acknowledge it,
many products are valuable
because they are toxic and
even "highly toxic." These
properties provide important
advantages, and their risks
can be managed. Pesticides,
for example, should be highly
toxic to the vermin they are
supposed to kill, while having
little impact on humans when
used properly. Chlorine is
caustic and dangerous if
misused — and for that we can
thank its Creator. Indeed,
chlorine's potent properties
will be crucial in helping
control the spread of deadly
pathogens in the
hurricane-torn regions of
Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Alabama.
These states face risks
that are all-to-common in poor
nations — risks of cholera,
dysentery, and other deadly
water-borne diseases. The only
difference is, the United
States has access to
disinfectants and many poor
communities around the world
don't.
In 1991, residents of Peru
and surrounding nations
learned about the dire impacts
of following the advice of
regulators who suggested
reduced chlorine use because
of alleged risks associated
with the chemical. According
to the scientific literature
on the topic, inadequate
chlorination was a key factor
in a cholera epidemic that
started in Peru and spread
throughout the hemisphere,
leading to about a million
cases of cholera and thousands
of deaths.
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