The East Providence Republican City Committee will be holding its 12th annual shoreline clean-up at Sabin Point Park, on Shore Road, in Riverside on Saturday, April 30th, from 12 Noon to 3:00 PM.
Anyone regardless of political affiliation is encouraged to participate, including parents with children, those who need to complete community service hours, or anyone who wants to help the environment. As this is a great way to meet state and local Republican candidates and officials, those East Providence Republicans who might like to join the committee are highly encouraged to participate.
Snacks, bottled water, work gloves, and bags will be provided. Please bring a rake or a shovel with you. For more information or to RSVP, contact EPGOP Vice-Chair Kathy Santos at vicechair [at] epgop [dot] org or 437-0542 or visit the EPGOP website at www.epgop.org .
Charles Krauthammer on the New Socialism
The idea of essentially taxing hardworking citizens of the democracies to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early ’80s). They put a stake through the enterprise.
But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.
One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in thetristes tropiques.
Politically it’s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man’s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen…
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