While I get what you're saying VB, having been to a lot of other countries (some of which resemble your lower pic [can't see the upper one for some reason]), we are far, far from that and have been for nearly a hundred years in 99% of this country. I'm not disputing the need for an EPA either, just the abuse of it. We have made it nearly impossible to have any (remotely profitable) heavy industry, any new nuke plants (despite an impending energy shortage and the fact that it is actually one of the cleanest energy sources on the planet), any new oil wells or refineries (despite the obvious need to come down off our middle east addictions), or most anything else that might actually help bail us out of our economic crisis and actually support a better future. We want all the benefits of modern technology but don't want even the most miniscule byproducts of it in our back yards, so it all ends up in China, India or elsewhere. And soon we will suffer for it.
And as for the corporate devils, do you really trust the mass media (huge corporate devils themselves) feeding us all the alarmist horror stories to keep their ratings up and push forward their agendas? We cannot have growth and progress when we demonize every corporation that makes it big (apparently by creating/selling things people need/want) and every successful individual (usually because of their own toil and sweat). Something has to give. And many of them have already left (or at least their assets have). And that's well and good until we need what they have and now have to pay a lot more for it.
