Similar things he has done in Vermont.
Deans policies put 36 percent of small family farms out of business in order to favor large Agribusiness....
He brought in major large business, putting small, family owned businesses out to pasture, so one can only suspect that Dean is not going to do what is good for the little guy, the average person, but for big business.
So one can only assume, that given his record, regardless of what he says during the campaigns, Dean is going to do what his big business inclinations have led him to do in the past.
Dean's record, however, shows just the opposite. Remember, when Dean took office there were no Wal-Marts in Vermont; there was no Home Depots; Burlington's downtown was dominated by local stores not the national chains that now rule the roost; there were 36% more small farmers in existence; there were no 100,000-hen mega-farms; and sprawl wasn't a word on the tip of everyone's tongue.
Interestingly, Dean told the Free Press last week that he wished the rest of "the country were more like Vermont." But it certainly seems Dean has been doing his best to make Vermont more like the rest of the country.
Stephanie Kaplan, a leading environmental lawyer and the former executive officer of Vermont's Environmental Board, has seen the regulatory process under Dean become so slanted against environmentalists and concerned citizens that she hardly thinks its worth putting up a fight anymore
http://www.counterpunch.org/colby02222003.htmlThe closest example would be Deans importing Vermonts electricity from CANADA, becaseu it was cheaper for the Vermont unitlities companies, rather than produce it in Vermont. Makes you wondewr what happened to aall of the utility workers though:
The big shots say we are all on the hook for this very long contract with Hydro Quebec. Our prudent and public spirited utility executives agreed to pay for a lot more power than we need at a price billions of dollars higher than its market value. It's enough to make a good free market capitalist throw up.
So now it's fake free market time. Why now? Actually, there are no special technical reasons to restructure the electric power business now. It's all really just a matter of corporate bookkeeping. Technically, generation could have been separated from distribution twenty or thirty years ago. Or it doesn't need to happen at all. But everybody's doing it, all over the country. It's the latest thing, so little Vermont has to jump on this bandwagon too.
You might ask, how could us dumb citizens of Vermont have made such a crummy deal with Hydro Quebec in the first place? Well, basically, we didn't. Utility executives, against the advice of their own planners, made that deal, sailed it past the Public Service Board, and signed the contract themselves. We have to pay for it, they say, because they complied with a regulatory process that sticks the public with the bill every time.
The Vermont public wasn't paying close enough attention when the power company executives shopped that turkey around like sweet honey and the promised land. But it's doubtful public pressure would have made any difference anyway. Actually there was quite a hue and cry over the environmental impacts of the gigantic James Bay project. It didn't matter. These power companies have had the political machinery wired for generations. And the same bunch, more or less, maintains its political clout today in the governor's office and the state senate, thus the billion dollar bailout.
Utility lobbyists swarmed the statehouse in record numbers on this one. But those several dozen gray eminences couldn't simply techno-talk and bully their way to victory this time. There is resistance and they are terrified that this new fashion in corporate structure will stick them with some of the costs, or, perish the thought, all of the costs for their own bad decisions. When it started looking like stockholders would be forced to pick up even part of the bill corporate execs started rumbling ominously, "If you don't give us what we want we'll go bankrupt on you."
http://together.net/~wudchuck/987_watchman_34.htmlSo going by Dean record, he was willing tocut Deals with the Veront utility comapines in order to inport electricity from OUTSIDE of the U.S. rather than have American power facilities produce it.
It is not an exact co-relation becasue you are not exactly exporting labor, but buying a cheaper product from Canada becasue its labor produces it more cheaply.
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