The hard part for the United States, was creating a nation in which the people would have fair access to all those things of real importance, such as shelter, education, employment, non-discrimination, safety, and opportunity – of which, America has pretty much accomplished this for the most part and in those areas in which it has fallen short, seems to have, at a minimum, surely created the foundation for such to subsequently improve and to thus become eventually firmly established for the good of all its citizens. The thing is that because America is so intent upon capitalism and therefore the drive for profit being the be-all and end-all of its existence, we do so find, that money and the lust for that money, supersedes just about every aspect of the due process of law as well as fairness under that law, to the detriment of the people, in whole.
A case in point is the salient fact that many an enterprise works with dangerous chemicals, of which, the discharge of those chemicals through the air and water, or the actual processing of such, clearly causes harm to those in proximate location to that enterprise; along also with many a time, we find that the potential pollution of dangerous chemicals of all sorts, as well as other noxious things, is not properly handled correctly or dealt with responsibly at all, by that enterprise, and thus ends up becoming part and parcel of the air that we breathe, the land that we walk upon, along with the waters that we utilize for drinking. In other words, each of us, should be entitled to a safe environment in which the water that we drink, the shelter that we reside in, and the air that we breathe, are free of harmful contaminants.
What we so find, in our free enterprise world, is that those that are fixated upon making money, above all, will often do just everything in their power to see that what is clear and obvious to an independent and objective observer in regards to pollutants, is negated by all the countervailing avenues so available for those businesses that have money, position, and power – in which, those then that suffer the most from these noxious chemicals and the nasty pollution of all stripes, are almost always those that lack money, position, and power. This presupposes that in America, there is a dividing line which seems to stipulate, that it is okay, to discharge harmful pollutants, wherever so desired and to obfuscate such, as long as it is not in any neighborhood or vicinity that matters to those that have influence, money, and power.
Regrettably, when it comes to the conscious discharge of dangerous chemicals and other pollutants into the atmosphere, which are thus permitted to adversely affect our streams, rivers, land and air; we do find that oftentimes this pollution will end up extending far beyond the intended destination of where such was expected to go, and further to the point, these pollutants are often far more long lasting, and typically far more dangerous and debilitating to the human body than so advertised. So then, if due process of law, is to mean anything of substance at all, then it has to mean that each one of us, disadvantaged or not, is entitled to, first and foremost, a safe and healthy environment, of which, this government of, for, and by the people, needs to do its fair part to assure that this very thing happens.