Comments rclark51 has made

Lucid description of the folly of converting "toxic assets" (created by profiteers) into taxpayer liabilities. Instead of "placing a large bet on business as usual," we're actually doubling down on bad bets boosters convinced congress to make years ago when appropriating federal taxes to pay for items like the $4.5 billion Centeral Arizona Project, which lifts water uphill to Phoenix and Tucson. To power CAP's 14 giant pumps, the feds invested in a large coal-fired power plant that sucks huge amounts of water to operate. Cheap electricity combined with cheap water mean more and more green house gasses needed to keep suburbia and big boxes booming while making the arid Southwest hotter and drier. Did I mention federal subsidies for freeways? Philip Slater nailed it more than three decades ago when he wrote:"Our approach to transportation problems has had the effect of making it easier and easier to travel to more and more places that are less and less worth driving to." ....born and raised in Phoenix