President Obama just made the same old "hard choice" - between a more stringent air quality standard and jobs that would supposedly be lost if this standard were adopted. Of course, such a "hard choice" is a canard. Most environmental regulations not only save huge amounts of money on health costs, they actually create more jobs than they destroy. Four decades after such regulations began being adopted, you'd think pols would have noticed this rather obvious fact...
The Old Environment Or
Economy False Choice
Regulations curb employment
Claim conservative nabobs,
When you tighten up the former
They say it means less jobs.
Though regs foster innovation,
And pollution clean up spending,
Causing clean up firms to hire,
'Bout reg bashing there's no ending.
So our air will get more dirty
While pols ponder false old choices,
And debate a phony issue
Fueled by shrill well-funded voices.
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