Posted on 03/19/2017 2:56:35 AM PDT by vooch
Michael Picker stood in the freezing cold outside of the Environmental Protection Agency early Thursday morning passing out fliers that read, “Come work for California. Fight climate change.”
Picker was far away from his home in Sacramento, where he is the president of California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), for meetings with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. He decided to try to recruit demoralized EPA staffers, who are facing deep program cuts and controversial new leadership. The EPA's new administrator, Scott Pruitt, has a long record of opposing the agency's work.
Picker hopes to entice them to work for a state government with one of the most ambitious climate goals in the country. California is looking to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The flyers pointed people to a webpage to sign up for more details.....
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.....The verdict is still out on if this approach is the most effective solution for the state's recruitment challenges. But after his long day on Wednesday, Picker seems to have sympathy for the federal workers in DC. "I feel bad for them," Picker says about the Department of Energy staffers. "I noticed some folks coming in late."
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They are out begging for expert swindlers to help them spend money taxpayers in California does not have. Winning.
As each arrives...they need a salary of $150,000, and all this does is accelerate the eventual collapse of the Cal state government. Each state EPA regulation that they write....helps to push more companies into exiting the state. Eventually, there’s just not going to be the capital to run a state government.
And at that point is when California will whine, wheedle and demand help - because they are “too big to fail.”
President Trump won’t allow that.
Cool name. I’ll have to remember that! Thanks!
Better go ahead and ™ that!
We had better not end up bailing California out. I don’t want to pay for their stupidity. Let them go belly up, figure out a way to put their state back together, go on a strict budget and pull out of the hole all by themselves. It will be a lesson for the rest of the country about living within their means
Can’t you just picture them, in their myriad of safe spaces, fighting climate change with their tiny fists all balled up punching at the sky?
the only way to insure never bailing these clowns out is CALexit 2018
Except for the hell holes of liberal concentration, because of prevailing winds, the entire state has a constant flow right off the oceans. Maybe one day they just might figure out that the mass concentration embedded in mountain encompassed valleys might be more of an issue for just the concentration and not as reality will show for the rest of the state.
Just because their little valley is a cesspool for a myriad of reasons, just as the Dakota mess has so eloquently displayed with what they left behind, does not in any way give them the license to project that on the rest of the world, much of which they know nothing about.
When that thing started I thought it was a joke, but the more I thing about it the more realistic it becomes. It is a state with an overwhelming number of mental children. The adults who live in the areas outside the cities need to be thinking of a survival pan or an exit of their own.
My exact thoughts.
Citizenry for 49 states obviously agrees with you but I believe it inevitable. Every stupid idea ever uttered ends up as public policy in Cali. With no price to pay, yet, for this stupidity, they’ll never stop until it stops.
“Can’t you just picture them, in their myriad of safe spaces, fighting climate change with their tiny fists all balled up punching at the sky?”
Why yes, yes I can. It makes me feel warm and satisfied.
“Why yes, yes I can. It makes me feel warm and satisfied.”
Glad you did not use the word ‘fuzzy’ :)
CA has no long term ability to continue their Gaia worship. In not too many more election cycles Mexicans will outnumber both citizens and politicians. They don’t have much of an enviro program in Mexico.
How many trips has Trump made to California in the last three months?
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