Re: Ada and the NMD

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <slrn9pg3ss.35r.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben
Randhol says...
>
>wants/wanted (I don't know the current status) to allow increased levels
>of pollution in drinking water in the US as I understood it. It sounds
>to me that the industry is much more important than the people of the

It would probably be fair to say that business concerns have always been top
priority or close to it here. It has certainly been that way for the Republican
party (Bush's party) since the late 1800's. Calvin Coolidge, republican
president in the late 1920's is famous for saying "The chief business of the
American people is business." A less famous but equally telling quote from him
is "...the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works
there worships there..."

That has of course not nessecarily been the outlook of the other party during
this time. But there is far less difference between the two parties than is
typical in other countries, so you can probably take these attitudes a only
being a bit beyond the norm.

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