Thursday, July 27, 2006

52 - Right-Wing Wages War On State Environmental And Health Safeguards

Right-wingers are traditionally strong proponents of the states rights doctrine, which holds that the federal government should play a limited role and defer to the states whenever it can.

Right-wingers, however, have no principles, and when it suits their needs, they will readily abandon such supposedly sacred ideological tenets as states rights. And that's just what they have been doing.

Ever since January, 2001, right-wingers have jettisoned the state's rights doctrine when it suits their needs -- as you might expect, for nefarious purposes, to guarantee higher industry profits at the expense of increased human misery, suffering pain and death.

How? Right-wingers in Congress have conducted a massive assault on the right of the states to pass legislation to protect their citizens in the environmental and public health arenas.

The states would want to pass their own legislation when they feel that federal statutes do not adequately protect their citizens, which of course they won't, when right-wingers are writing those statutes.

So the GOP-controlled Congress has been trying to prevent the 50 states from passing any such legislation that goes beyond federal standards. This right-wing campaign is happening largely under the radar, even though the effect of this campaign could be deadly for countless Americans.

Listen to the podcast for all the details.

Jack Clark 2:08 PM [+]   6 comments
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