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| Originally posted by Pooeypants+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Pooeypants)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Erm, the ending sentence is probably going to ignite a flame... [/b] |
Yeah, it's like questioning the immaculate conception -- some myths are inviolable. Well, let 'em burn.
<!--QuoteBegin-Comp We're all (EU + USA) being legislated into a feifdom.[/quote]
If you saw the degree of regulation where I live, you'd probably flip. But I see it as largely positive. I feel absolutely free -- where it counts.
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| Why do you have an even greater division between rich and poor? |
No,
you've got it.
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| Was Hilter worried about fuel economy when he built the autobahn? Hasn't Jeremy ever seen photographs of the soot raining down from the factories collecting on hanging laundry? If you look across a city like Los Angeles now, we have visible smog. But turn of the century Nottingham, you couldn't see down the street. |
Interesting choice of comparisons: A. Hitler (compared with whom, Dubbya?); LA today with Nottingham a
hundred years ago ... The point is that when you have unlimited space (or think you do) you're more careless. I stood and watched a coal-fired electricity station belching away on the Ohio last year and thought "These guys just don't care." Someday soon I think you'll be forced to.
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| We're all too dependant on the interconnected goodies government provides, built on the very empty promises and credit Jeremy blames. Even Jeremy admits that, (yet not mentioning oil) but offers the solution as yet more consolidation of power. |
I think we're all too dependent -- on both sides of The Pond -- on goodies provided by
technology.
As for oil, he didn't mention it but it's a good point. Whereas everybody else in the world has to choose between guns and butter, the US can break the rules and fail to balance its books -- at least so far -- because even nervous investors feel that, well, an economy that size has to be able to pay its debts. The dollar has been the world's reserve currency since WWII after all.
But with the US now borrowing up to 4 billion bucks a day from overseas, while saving practically nothing ("When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.") and cutting taxes even while launching big military adventures, well sooner or later somebody's going to pull the plug, especially with the euro now waiting in the wings.
The day the euro replaces the dollar as the currency of the oil industry, it won't matter how many boys you have in Fallujah.