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Job-Killing Environmentalists

Jon Basil Utley, Associate Publisher of The American Conservative, has a new piece at Reason.com discussing how kowtowing to environmentalists’ demands is killing American jobs. President Barack Obama seems more concerned with appeasing environmental extremists in his administration than he is with the lost jobs of poor Americans. He’s letting the environmentalists run wild with […]

Jon Basil Utley, Associate Publisher of The American Conservative, has a new piece at Reason.com discussing how kowtowing to environmentalists’ demands is killing American jobs.

President Barack Obama seems more concerned with appeasing environmental extremists in his administration than he is with the lost jobs of poor Americans. He’s letting the environmentalists run wild with long pent-up schemes to force a change in the American way of life that includes small cars, small apartments and, for many, a return to an idealized 19th century lifestyle. It’s not China that’s responsible for American job losses; it’s Washington’s fault for shutting down whole industries and preventing new jobs from being created.

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