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2010-01-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-01-17 10:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 When is California going to elect non-retarded representatives?

Posted by 3dc 2010-01-17 12:28|| 2010-01-17 12:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Chillax, not in your lifetime.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-17 12:54|| 2010-01-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#3 49 other states manage to get by without an Air Resources Board, California can too. We can't afford it anymore. Time to eliminate the entire bureaucracy.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-01-17 16:53|| 2010-01-17 16:53|| Front Page Top

#4 right on crosspatch... but since those other 49 states like to bash Ca. for poor environmental conditions (CO2,CFC emissions, etc.) which have steadily decreased annually since passage of the Clean Air Act it seems like some bureaucracy appears to be working. But, yeah, I agree, this Air Board is a step in the wrong direction, for sure.

Posted by Yo Adrian 2010-01-17 17:03|| 2010-01-17 17:03|| Front Page Top

#5 at one point (the 70's-80's), the Air Board was a great thing, helping to implement stds that made the LA basin breathable. Now, it is a tool looking for a purpose, implementing stds without concern for consequences, just to "be doing something". The story of so many Boards and Commissions

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-17 17:09|| 2010-01-17 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 CARB? Aren't they the guys who poisoned the ground water with their additives?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-17 17:17|| 2010-01-17 17:17|| Front Page Top

#7 If I found somebody messing with my tires - I would consider running them over.

If I had not read this story and was visiting California and somebody claimed to be a CARB inspector - I would assume they were crooks or there was a hidden camera somewhere.
After looking around for the camera... I would have taken some sort of action (Hey I am a big guy and don't put up with idiots touching my property).
The state is really nuts to consider this.
Lots of their agents will get hurt.

Posted by 3dc 2010-01-17 18:39|| 2010-01-17 18:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Time to eliminate the entire bureaucracy.

Exactly backwards. It's time to eliminate all federal regulatory bureaucracies and return those powers to the states & local communities where they rightly belong. California will then serve a vital purpose as an example of how bad things can get.

Eliminating the state bureaucracies will eliminate competition among the states and guarantee even more standardization of the stupidity at the federal level. That we truly cannot afford.

Posted by AzCat 2010-01-17 22:33|| 2010-01-17 22:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Another reason (as if I needed one) not to visit Caliphornia again.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-17 23:21|| 2010-01-17 23:21|| Front Page Top

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