--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/>> > > President George Bush and the Gilded Age > Yoshi Tsurumi (Professor of International Business, > Baruch College, the City University of New York )
<most snipped> > At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George > Bush was a student > of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, > he declared that > "people are poor because they are lazy." He was > opposed to labor unions, > social security, environmental protection, Medicare, > and public schools... And his admin is pushing for changing the Endangered Species Act to allow the importation of any of more than 500 foreign endangered species protected by the Act - a major revision of the Act. (Bona fide species survival/breeding programs are already allowed to import breeding stock.) Public comments on this revision are closed after March 9. This is a very bad idea; public demand for rare species such as hyacinth macaws has already created tremendous pressure on the wild breeding population, and in the case of primates, adults are often killed to get the young. Debbi "If we are saying that the loss of species in and of itself is inherently bad -- I don't think we know enough about how the world works to say that." -Interior Department Assistant Secretary Craig Manson, appointed by President Bush to position overseeing the Endangered Species Act, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 2003 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
