Isn’t this Moonbeams 4th time at the Helm?
Not living here (luckily) during his first time wasn’t he just as goofy then? Hence his nick name Moonbeam?

Why do you always have that horrible picture of exhaust when you talk about the CO2 dictates?

You are talking about CO2 not pollutants like those in that picture.

Thank you for nailing.

Terry

I wish these wussy CEO’s had half the courage and intestinal fortitude that Howard Hughes had. JUST SAY NO, and STOP making ANY “Special Blend” tell California to Make their own gas. And only sell to other States.

Bend over and grab yer ankles, boys….Jerry’s coming.

It came to America under the guise of Democratic-Republican Societies started by none other than Edmund Genet of French Revolution fame (The Founders at Home by Myron Magnet). he had to leave France because things finally got too hot for him.

These societies were later called Republican for short, then turned into the Democratic Party. You know, the one the pro-slavery Southerners preferred to any other.

But Progressivism infected conservative Americans, too.

It is based on the notion that Liberty is Freedom from any kind of control. Meaning, no self-restraint in individuals and no limits on government power. Also known as Anarchy and Tyranny.

But, if as its says in the Declaration of Independence, that the fundamental purpose of all just government is to protect the Liberty of the People, then that definition of Liberty and Freedom is illogical and unworkable.

The correct definition of Liberty is Freedom and Independence. Freedom being the absence of external control and Independence being self-control, self-government, or self-reliance & self-restraint.

In that definition is the Principle of Reciprocity, otherwise known as the Golden Rule.

Progressivism believes that the end justifies the means, that government knows best what is good for people, that the people’s rights come from government, etc. This is the kind of thinking that is bringing back Redevelopment (the use of public money and eminent domain for private projects); that brought us Prohibition, that brought us Obamacare, that is destroying our beautiful deserts with humongous and damaging solar projects, that brings us a government policy allowing wind-power projects that kill birds, that says there is no reason to have limits on government spending or debt, that the people exist to serve the state, and so forth. The greenie movement is Progressive. And so is the movement that says it is okay for corporations to pollute the environment because they are creating jobs!

This both-sides-of-the-aisle factor is a feature of Progressivism.

So, when you read Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and discover that he did not trust businessmen and that he believed whenever any two were gathered together they were in a conspiracy against the public, but that he also recommended that because the thing they do best is making money and the economic activity generated by their ambitions is good for society
the best government policy for a prosperous economy is to let them. Not to interfere by favoring special interests or trying to control outcomes (both are ancient practices). But that is not all he said.

He also said that government should regulate business only to protect the consumer.

I think he would have said that requiring the food industry to label their products so consumers would know what they were buying is not an unreasonable demand. Consumer choice isn’t if the buyer can’t figure out what he’s getting.

Progressivism in all its forms is an enemy of Liberty.

The duty of a Senator is to protect the Liberty of the People.
California Senate Motto