{"id":11904,"date":"2010-05-04T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T22:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11904"},"modified":"2010-05-04T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:00:31","slug":"how-an-activist-government-destroys-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11904\/how-an-activist-government-destroys-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"How An Activist Government Destroys the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin is so suspiciously quiet this week as is President Obama.\u00a0 We’re all kind of holding our breath, as the oil spreads throughout the Gulf of Mexico, with hopes and prayers that it doesn’t reach the Panhandle beaches.\u00a0 This oil spill is big and its effects might be catastrophic.<\/p>\n

This is not a failure of the free market rather it is a failure of government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greg Swann beat me to this yesterday<\/a>, encouraged by an email from Sara P,. Miller, but I’ve been talking about this on Facebook<\/a> for a few days:<\/p>\n

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There is no need to ban offshore drilling. Present BP with the cleanup bill and hold them responsible for the secondary damages, and other oil companies will think long and hard about the costs associated with offshore drilling. If the US Gov’t “bails out” BP by socializing costs, it will be one more example of how gov’t makes the world a less safe place than the free market can<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This may be a hard pill for government groupies to swallow but the response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill (more government regulations and a limit on liability) is what caused this disaster.\u00a0 Regulations offer a false sense of security.\u00a0 Moreover, when the State manages risk for private industry, private industry will take as much risk as they are legally permitted<\/em>.\u00a0 It happened in the housing market and now its happening to our environment.\u00a0 This is what free market supporters call “moral hazard” which is a fancy way of saying “with reward comes responsibility”.<\/p>\n

We didn’t like the Valdez oil spill but let’s face it:\u00a0 that was in Alaska.\u00a0 It affected far fewer people and its cold there so you (and I) didn’t think too much about it.\u00a0 Now that the chocolate milk<\/a> is threatening our prettiest beaches, in a warm clime, with millions of people affected, we’re nervous….and it might have been averted had the State not encouraged what might be VERY risky behavior but we’ll never know…<\/p>\n

…because that risk was socialized by the taxpayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let me show you how it happens:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senator Sara\u00a0 is elected from a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin is so suspiciously quiet this week as is President Obama.\u00a0 We’re all kind of holding our breath, as the oil spreads throughout the Gulf of Mexico, with hopes and prayers that it doesn’t reach the Panhandle beaches.\u00a0 This oil spill is big and its effects might be catastrophic. This is not a failure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11905,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11905\/this-oil-spill-and-the-governments-belated-response-to-it-do-not-prove-the-value-and-efficacy-of-the-government-but-precisely-the-opposite\/","url_meta":{"origin":11904,"position":0},"title":"This oil spill and the government’s belated response to it do not prove the value and efficacy of the government, but precisely the opposite.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"So I had a spam email from a state-worshipping zealot I've never met named Sara P. 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