The Big Picture
The current House of Representatives has spent its time and resources not on creating jobs, but on doing all it can to achieve the completely unfettered corporatism big business desires. At the top of the hit list is environmental regulation. I don't know why any thinking person would think the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act are bad things. Perhaps it's the collective amnesia we have. (Do people not remember that in our recent past, polluted lakes burned?) Instead, they live in fear that a company somewhere might actually have to invest some of its considerable profit in measures to avoid destroying the planet for the rest of us. But there are none who chant the mantra of "regulation bad" with more religious fervor than those who insist the activities of man have had zero impact on climate change. All the hoopla about this made me think of an analogy I've considered before. When a person has an infection, the illness is not noticeable at first. S