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Progressives should be called regressive

In response to Paul Wainwright’s letter (Herald, Aug. 21), elitist liberals and their sophomoric progressive minions call conservatives names because of the poisonous atmosphere created by our divisive, corrupt, lying, sniping president. Also because they are conversation enders, necessary because of the fallacies in their agenda that would cause them to lose any civil discussions.

Progressives? There’s an oxymoron! Regressive is more apt, for their tenets have been tried multiple times and have always failed.

Take Ken Van Zee (Letters, Herald, Aug. 12), who gave cutesy nasty names to conservatives but had no substance or facts, just bloviation. He said J. Paul Brown was only interested in a lower LPEA bill. Well, Brown is very successful and probably not concerned with his electric costs. Perhaps he is interested in those who cannot afford higher costs or the fact that all economies require cheap, reliable power. Reliable coal produces a kilowatt hour for about $.04, while unreliable wind and solar, which have been around for more than 120 years and have always failed on a large scale, cost of about $.22, only when supplemented by taxpayers.

Only reservation plants produce a haze because they are not required to follow current guidelines. Worldwide, coal is the fastest-growing form of energy, and even Europe is losing its taste for green stuff, for it is importing Appalachian coal because people cannot afford electricity.

People have also been touting Obama’s job growth. In June, 288,000 jobs were created, but 712,000 jobs switched from full-time to part-time. Also in 2013, Texas created 1.1 million jobs while the other states collectively lost 350,000. Texas: Republican government, favorable business atmosphere, low taxes, fiscally sound and energy resources. Coincidence?

To see 55 years of Democratic control and corruption, look no further than Detroit. To see strict gun control, look no further than Chicago, my hometown – a cesspool of Democrats’ open-ended enabling, high taxes and monstrous debt.

Fortunately, Durango, a tourist economy, is atypical of the rest of the country that is far more pragmatic and relies on a hard economy.

Robert Goodrich

Bayfield



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