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turbinetree

(24,745 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2018, 01:53 PM Jun 2018

Robert Kennedy's economic lesson for Trump

Weeks before he died 50 years ago, RFK said it's crazy to destroy the environment in the name of economic growth.

JOE ROMM JUN 6, 2018, 12:03 PM

Donald Trump’s economic policy is based on the fatally flawed notion that ending regulations, particularly environmental ones, is the key to faster economic growth. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), who was assassinated 50 years ago, on June 6, 1968, explained just how misguided that view was just weeks before he was killed.

Candidate Trump explained to CNBC in May 2016 one of his core strategies for boosting economic growth: “We’re going to be getting rid of a tremendous amount of regulations.” Weeks earlier, Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked how he’d cut the federal budget, and Trump replied “Department of Environmental Protection [sic]. We are going to get rid of it in almost every form.”

Trump and Scott Pruitt — the ethically-challenged Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — are certainly gutting our environmental protections. In January, the New York Times listed “67 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump.” And, most infamously, a year ago, Trump became the only world leader to abandon the Paris climate agreement, the unanimous agreement among 200 nations to work together to cut carbon pollution and avoid catastrophic global warming.

https://thinkprogress.org/robert-kennedy-explained-why-trumps-environmental-policy-is-terrible-economics-75ed8f6f3a28/

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This is an intersting article - DURHAM D Jun 2018 #1

DURHAM D

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1. This is an intersting article -

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Wed Jun 6, 2018, 03:11 PM

Jun 2018

http://www.hutchnews.com/news/20180606/rfks-campaign-started-in-kansas

RFK’s campaign started in Kansas -

15,000 in Manhattan

On Monday, March 18, a private plane carried the Kennedys to Manhattan for a 9 a.m. reception prior to the 10 a.m. lecture before approximately 15,000 people.

“The reason I’m here is that someone sent me a history of this city. And I discovered that it was founded by people from Chicago who came to Kansas to found a town named Boston, which they later changed to Manhattan. So I knew I’d be right at home,” he began.

He came to K-State at the invitation of former Gov. Alfred M. Landon. But he quoted another Kansan:

“If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vision and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow,” Kennedy said, quoting the written words of William Allen White, the late editor of the Emporia Gazette.

This part of the article is hard to imagine -

The Kennedys flew east to Lawrence and a crowd of 17,500 at the University of Kansas. Besides the Dockings, Republican U.S. Sen. James Pearson and his wife also were present.

Kennedy praised Pearson and the state’s other Republican Senator, Frank Carlson.

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