Reply #5: This is stuff right out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth [View All]

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You know, just as well as I do, that when developers want to destroy wetlands or cut down huge tracts of trees, they do it. Decisions about crickets versus jobs only come to light rarely, and in the current economic climate, they are rarer and rarer all the time. More often than not, the bulldozers get there before the "liberals" do, and the reduced time available for land use studies -- the result of change to zoning policies all over the country -- means that thee is far less time to discover the rare toads or crickets that you have endangering construction jobs.

I'll tell you what is destroying good jobs for people all ove the place is the anti-union bias of the GOP and its business allies. And talk about a species that is going out of business, it is the union construction worker who is being displaced again and again -- at least here in the Hudson Valley -- by non-union workers brought in by out-of-area developers, the same people who are the biggest financial supporters of the GOP.

"For the sake of a cricket" my ass! Do the union folks you claim to be close to on a number of threads Ive seen not see that the GOP has championed efforts to roll back safe workplace rules, arsenic level protections in drinking water, and have tried like hell to change the very notion of overtime, among other things? If they do see these things, I find it hard to imagine that they cannot see that these are much more legitimate threats to them and their lives than that cricket thing you see as such a major problme to the party.