Bruce MacMahon for State Representative
Rockingham District 10 - Brentwood
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The Environment (click here to return to the Home Page)
As is often the case,
when discussing political issues, it is necessary to first clarify and define
the terms and words used within the framework of the discussion. This is especially
true when discussing “environmental” concerns. Over the last few
decades the term “environmental” has been hijacked by those with a political
axe to grind and distorted to mean something different than what it meant in
our grandparents’ days. What was once a call for clean air, water, and
woodlands has been replaced with a deafening and ceaseless clarion for the
redistribution of wealth and draconian governmental interferences in the free
market and the behavioral choices of free people. Our own government is
now drafting and enacting legislation, based on dubious scientific
“research”, telling us what kind of light bulbs or automobiles we will soon
be allowed to buy. The
Democrat-controlled Congress is still pushing a scheme to establish carbon
credit exchanges, which would do little but generate billions in revenue for
some of the same financial institutions currently getting bailed out by the
American taxpayer, while driving the cost of energy skyward. If there’s a common
thread among all the environmental “solutions” coming out of Washington as of
late, it’s that they will all result in more money flowing into the campaign
coffers of our elected representatives, less money in our wallets, and less
freedom in our lives. Actual concern for our
planet’s natural resources has been replaced with a cult-like devotion to a
misguided left-wing ideology seeking to impose failed economic policies on a
global scale and confiscate wealth from one group of nations and transfer it
to more “deserving” nations. If we are to use today’s
definitions, and the political philosophies that serve as their underpinning,
in the hopes of having a serious and meaningful conversation about the
quality of our environment, we must make a point to differentiate between
“environmentalism”, as defined by people like Al Gore and Henry Waxman, and
actual “conservationism”, the stewardship of our planet’s natural resources. Make no mistake about
it, this so-called “environmental” movement has very little to do with providing
our communities with clean drinking water, or curbing global pollution
emissions. It is about politicians seizing power and control over the people,
and keeping the flow of taxpayer dollars within the incestuous circle that
connects the politicians to corporate interests, organized labor, and their
enablers in the halls of academia. Ask yourself this, who
lives a “greener” lifestyle? Al Gore, an outspoken “environmentalist” with a
penchant for private jets and limousines, who is worshipped like a deity
within the anthropogenic global warming movement, or Ted Nugent, an avid
hunter and outdoorsman, who is maligned by the “progressive” left as a
dangerous right-wing fanatic? As your state
representative, I will stand up for common sense solutions to real problems
facing our communities. I will not tolerate those who seek to enact draconian
governmental controls or confiscatory and redistributive tax policies on
private citizens and businesses - policies derived from radical, left-wing
ideology, based on junk science, wrapped up in the banner of
“environmentalism”, “energy independence”, or “national security”, and
peddled to the public via what amounts to a taxpayer-funded campaign of
fear-mongering and deceit. ~ Bruce |
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