Fiorina: Water Works lawsuit an 'overreach of local government'

[cigaretteman]

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina called Des Moines Water Works suing three northwest Iowa counties over water quality “an overreach of local government” during a town hall discussion Thursday.

“Let me start with this basic principle: If someone owns a parcel of land,” she said, “and their family is dependent upon that parcel of land and they know that that parcel of land and the water that runs through it is going to be the drinking water for their family not just now, but for generations, I actually trust them to manage the quality of that water better than some bureaucrat.”

Speaking during a Rural Town Hall hosted by RFD-TV, an agriculture-focused channel, Fiorina touched on a variety of issues important to farmers and producers, including funding research and innovations in the agriculture sector (she’s for it), the trans-pacific partnership (she’s against it) and crop insurance (she’s for it, but wants the free market to determine rates, not the federal government).

In fact, most of Fiorina's farm-centric opinions could be summed up with “get the government out.”

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ournalism-students-during-iowa-stop/74003652/
“I think all decisions are best made by the people closest to the people impacted by those decisions,” she said.

“Somehow we’ve gotten to a place,” she continued, “…where many make the assumption that a bureaucrat that knows nothing about something is going to be better able to manage something than someone whose livelihood depends upon it.”

Fiorina also appeared at the Polk County GOP Women's Chili Cook-off in Windsor Heights on Thursday.

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/...ater-works-agriculture-rural-issues/74029728/

 

[naturalmwa]

There are some weird inconsistencies here. She is for local control, except when it tries to control the locals. She trusts the people who have empirically not safe guarded the water. The free market lady is against the free trade agreement. Finally she wants the government out, but wants the government research money. Did she pull these positions out of a hat on stage as some sort of oratorical rhetoric exercise?

 

[theiacowtipper]

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina called Des Moines Water Works suing three northwest Iowa counties over water quality “an overreach of local government” during a town hall discussion Thursday.

“Let me start with this basic principle: If someone owns a parcel of land,” she said, “and their family is dependent upon that parcel of land and they know that that parcel of land and the water that runs through it is going to be the drinking water for their family not just now, but for generations, I actually trust them to manage the quality of that water better than some bureaucrat.”

Speaking during a Rural Town Hall hosted by RFD-TV, an agriculture-focused channel, Fiorina touched on a variety of issues important to farmers and producers, including funding research and innovations in the agriculture sector (she’s for it), the trans-pacific partnership (she’s against it) and crop insurance (she’s for it, but wants the free market to determine rates, not the federal government).

In fact, most of Fiorina's farm-centric opinions could be summed up with “get the government out.”

“I think all decisions are best made by the people closest to the people impacted by those decisions,” she said.

“Somehow we’ve gotten to a place,” she continued, “…where many make the assumption that a bureaucrat that knows nothing about something is going to be better able to manage something than someone whose livelihood depends upon it.”

Fiorina also appeared at the Polk County GOP Women's Chili Cook-off in Windsor Heights on Thursday.

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/...ater-works-agriculture-rural-issues/74029728/

I am certain she would be perfectly willing to trust industry to regulate their emissions, because, "they're the most knowledgeable about the product and the standards". We need to get the government out of the way of business. That has proven to be a disaster in the past and will be in the future. Simply put, for profit business need strong oversight, particularly environmental and worker protection oversight. If you screw up, you get sued.

 

[CeMar_Clone]

I am certain she would be perfectly willing to trust industry to regulate their emissions, because, "they're the most knowledgeable about the product and the standards". We need to get the government out of the way of business. That has proven to be a disaster in the past and will be in the future. Simply put, for profit business need strong oversight, particularly environmental and worker protection oversight. If you screw up, you get sued.

Simple question, why trust the government?

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Just trying to get some of that ag welfare back.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Simple question, why trust the government?

Why trust big business?

 

[theiacowtipper]

Simple question, why trust the government?

At least elected officials, on some level, are accountable by election and re-election. The officers of a company are really only accountable for profit. I would agree that neither is an ideal overseer, but in these cases the government makes a better watchdog.

Of course, with the Citizens United decision, we have a situation arising where big business, along with a small number of wealthy individuals, own the government. Americans for Prosperity, funded primarily by fossil fuel dollars, directly funds politicians that are against green energy. Either way the game is rigged against the little guy.