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so let's reverse course...is it worth it? so we swing from one extreme to the other....Trump now has decided to continue with the keystone pipeline/gut various environmental regulations on business.. In your opinion is this a good thing or a bad thing to do? Trump says it will produce jobs.. Obama claimed it will hurt the environment. I tend to look big picture on this one....what good does it do for the US to hamper itself economically. I mean if china and India..hell even mexcio doesn't impose these restrictions on it's businesses.... then why are we left holding the bag It would be different if we lived in a glass fish bowl , but now we are competing in a global economy. There is a reason steel is no longer made in america ( as Hillary was quick to point out..remember when she made the comment that trump used foreign steel in all his hotels)...it is just cheaper to get it from china.. Trump knows this and so does every other builder So what happens if other industries fall like steel.. do we just shrug our shoulders and accept it? How would we feel if Ford/GM made all it's cars in mexico? What if apple moved to canada? Would the US become a live action version of wall-e.. completely with floating couches and robots that do all the work? One way to leverage this is to place tariffs on imported goods ( which is what trump wants to do) or lessen some of the regulations that is making business in america nearly impossible. I guess the question is... are good paying jobs worth pollution.? and before you answer... how about if trump's policies do start creating jobs/the economy improves and say your / now has a job with a good income ( say car sales skyrocket and they get a job with GM)... would you still be against this notion? I appreciate all comments and hope to hear different opinions |
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1/24/2017 11:21 am |
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1/24/2017 3:13 pm |
Er this is a blog. Alt has no problem with its content and neither should you. Your not forced to read it and no one forces you to respond. So my blog... My rules .. No need to insult your host. So basically fuck off or I'll just ban you
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Environmental regulations and jobs are not mutually exclusive. Germany, Singapore and Switzerland all have very strict environmental laws and yet all have strong economies too. In fact, I would say that unemployment is probably better in those three countries than in the US. So, strong environmental laws, if done right, doesn't hurt the job market. The same question can be posed about the federal hiring freeze. Federal jobs are very good paying jobs, at a time when good jobs are hard to come by. These jobs are also only available to US citizens. By freezing hiring you are denying approximately 200K US citizens from getting high paying jobs. Is it worth denying 200K US citizens good jobs to fulfill a campaign promise?
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1/24/2017 5:54 pm |
Yes but aren't gov jobs stable due to overspending
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