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A Swedish diplomat to the EU community legislative convocation described the US attitude towards the environment as follows: "The US is inclined to fatten the banker's golden goose at the expense of filling the rivers with poisoned fish!"

I love the metaphoric drifts behind this comment. Indeed that is a most apt description of the US GOP attitude towards the environment. We feed the golden goose to lay golden eggs for the scions of the bankers and associates, while we poison the air and water. We encourage the children of the bankers to increase the golden egg production(repeal estate taxes, void environmental laws, lower taxes on wealth, etc.) while we teach the mass of the children who will never have access to the golden eggs to fish. Of course we never tell them that the fish are going to kill them. We teach the mass of the non-egg receiving children to work hard and if they do so they will maybe get a golden egg before they die; of course we teach them this by teaching them to gamble, so that they don't realize that the odds are always stacked against them(98% return on all slot machines). Interestingly, the bankers have been deluded as well into believing that they can eat the golden eggs, failing to realize that the golden eggs had to be cracked open and broken into little pieces and distributed to the mass of children to get fish to eat. Thus, by their own insulation from reality, the children of the golden geese will likewise become poisoned. AAAhh ignorance is such bliss.