Re: California: "New debate on radiation at landfills"

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/12/2003 12:10:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, maury@webtexas.com writes:


> I wish it was feasible to do something more than just sympathize and
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> commiserate with you for the efforts you are expending to bring about
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> some rational govt. behavior. CA just seems to be determined to shoot
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> themselves in the foot in many different ways. I spent five years
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> conducting a small research program for SAC at Castle AFB and have many
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> fond memories of my time in CA. I'm sorry to see it going down this road
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> and hope that you will ultimately enjoy more success in stopping some of
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> this legislative nonsense.



Thank you, and I agree.  It is a sorry state indeed.  There are someting like 1,000 bills introduced in a typical legislative year in California.  The Senators and Assemblymembers can have but a shallow understanding of the issues on which they vote.  I think that in any political reform movement, some type of limit should be proposed, like you may focus on five major issues per session, with no more than five bills introduced per issue, so that there would be some hope that, if these representatives were at all sincere, they could have some reasonable, substantial understanding of what they're doing.  


How many tens or hundreds of millions will EPA expend this year to reduce excess fatal cancer risk to one in a million or one in ten thousand in a background of almost one in four?  That is the height of folly, and it comes at the expense of education dollars, healthcare dollars, and biomedical research dollars.


Barbara