</p>A <ahref="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBiutQznDCA">video from a David Horowitz retreat several months back<ahref="http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/11581/pat-caddell-environmentalists-purpose-is-to-deconstruct-capitalism"> has already cost one person a job. The video shows <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Caddell">Patrick Caddell, former pollster to Jimmy Carter, lament that “the whole idea of the*environmental*movement isn’t to clean up the*environment” but rather to “basically deconstruct capitalism. They are against capitalism.” A little later Caddell continues,* “I happen to believe this country needs a good dose of what it believes in: real democracy and real free enterprise.”
While*embarrassing*to those on the left who promote the sort of policies Caddell refers to, the remark comes as no surprise to The Heritage Foundationour*<ahref="http://www.heritage.org/research/energyandenvironment/">extensive research on the subject has long demonstrated that*succumbing*to the environmental lobby has often come <ahref="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/bg2365.cfm">at <ahref="http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm2766.cfm">the <ahref="http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm2795.cfm">expense of jobs and free trade.