Did you know that the Inland Empire, by creating tens of thousands of well paying jobs, lots of government revenues, and warehouses. But it also means lots of trucks in the area—and the Left hates trucks, cars and 2017. They prefer 1817 and horse manure instead of the modern world.
“The World Logistics Center, which is now known locally by the acronym “WLC,” has turned Moreno Valley politics into a bloodsport. Community organizers and environmental groups have fought — in both city hall and the courtroom — to protect residents from the pollution it would cause and save protected species like peregrine falcons and California golden eagles that live in the nearby San Jacinto Wildlife Area.
Once built, warehouses don’t pollute the way that factories and power plants do. But a project the size of the WLC would be a magnet for truck traffic, spewing exhaust on 69,000 estimated daily trips in and out of the complex. In a struggling region, though, the lure of jobs has proven difficult to overcome, despite the public health and quality of life concerns.
“That’s why people are pressing so hard now,” Thornsley says, “to get somebody elected who’s not going to be, in essence, another developer’s puppet.”
Super—kill the jobs, force folks to go on welfare—but not have taxpayers to finance the welfare system. These folks prefer poverty to success, they prefer hand to mouth instead of good jobs and a great lifestyle. In fact, they believe they got theirs—no one else should be allowed to succeed.
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