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Is this the act of the federal government acting like a 5-year old petulant child, who does the thing that its been told to stop to do because it's something ba
by netsharc 10mo ago
Is this the act of the federal government acting like a 5-year old petulant child, who does the thing that its been told to stop to do because it's something bad? Or is some friend of Trump getting paid to sell coal to them?
- OutOfHere 10mo agoTrump's coal friends funded him into power, so now he is funding them. I don't know when we will realize that big money and an imposing federal government both are evil. Money and power should ideally be distributed, not vastly concentrated. The Gini index and similar indexes come to mind. The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions.
- tanaros 10mo ago> The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions. If the federal government is about granting rights, does that imply the default state is “no rights”? That seems objectively worse.
- OutOfHere 10mo agoIndividual states tend to take away rights. In the aforesaid approach, it's the job of the federal government to ensure they can't or don't.
- readthenotes1 10mo ago"The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions." In the US, at least, that's exactly backwards. The purpose of the Constitution was to specifically limit the rights the people gave to it's government and those who govern. The 9th and 10th amendments were added to make that abundantly clear. Unfortunately, the articles gave plenty of ambiguity to exploit.
- johng 10mo agoFrom the article, this is the only reason I can see for the order to keep it going... Quote: "That analysis, commissioned by Puget Sound Energy, Tacoma Power, Avista, Seattle City Light, and others, argues that Washington could get hit with an electricity crisis." The above is if they have an extended downtime. So, the only argument can be that as the power companies shut down, it might create an emergency in Washington, or a crisis if power is needed and it's not there. Edit, added: It seems the above power companies are in Washington and concluded themselves that it might be dangerous and create an energy crisis?
- tastyface 10mo agoClean air is woke.