Richard94611

Hi there. Just thought you would like to know.

It's been two years since the United States signed the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to prevent the global temperature from rising two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This week, ATTN: interviewed former Secretary of State John Kerry to hear his thoughts on President Trump's decision to leave the agreement. "There's a distinction between President Trump making the decision to pull out of Paris and what is really going to happen in the United States," Kerry told us. "And I am glad for that distinction because 90 mayors in the United States in the major cities have all decided they are going to keep their cities in the Paris Agreement [anyway]."

Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia

Good for them, and if they are dunned for money, it is their local taxpayers that will have to pony up, not me. Cities are hotbeds for such scams, but they have many more issues to pay for than this, I believe. Plus, it is perhaps not the cities so much as the industrial base that pollutes.

Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia

And you delight in referring to John Kerry?

rebob14

Congrats on your backyard victory, Lurch, just leave the rest of us alone, please!

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Ta-da! Congratulations Buddy! You nailed it! It's their money to waste if they want to. Yup. Cities are easily scammed by these 'feel good' ideals. Check (again). The reason it's a scam is because the cities are not the ones doing the polluting, but the private industrial activities within the cities. You are so right, I now have goosebumps.

So what happens now is that (in the absence of Federal edicts) all these 'progressive' cities will start applying regulation upon regulation on the businesses within their jurisdictions; and in a matter of a few years those businesses will move to 'friendlier territory', leaving poverty and unemployment in their wake. Once there are no longer enough jobs available to support the population of these cities, the people will start drifting towards other municipalities where jobs are plentiful and these 'progressive' cities will become virtual ghost towns. I call it 'suicide by government regulation'. But that, too, is their prerogative.

President Trump understands this, and so is allowing them to fall on their own sword in the name of whatever the talking point of the day is. He's going to let them expose themselves for the fools that they are. They know it, and they don't like it, hence all the crying and kvetching ("*Sob*, but, but... I don't want to kill myself!"). Good. sounds like sweet music to my ears. Turn up the volume!