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13 years ago @ Big Government - The Nutty and Dangerou... · 0 replies · -1 points

Not so sure about that. I was a tech entrepreneur who helped launch a company operating in nine countries before I got involved in progressive politics. When things get seriously out of whack, sometimes you have to stand on the end of the see-saw to bring them back into balance.

13 years ago @ Big Government - The Nutty and Dangerou... · 1 reply · -8 points

There are OWS demos in a lot of cities. Rather than sitting behind your computers, digesting videos fed to you by political pilot fish, why don't you go out and talk to some of the folks to hear what they are trying to do? Maybe you'll still think they are a bunch of socialist ingenues, but at least you'll know it first hand, for yourselves.

13 years ago @ Big Government - The Nutty and Dangerou... · 2 replies · -2 points

Glad we agree. Maybe you want to help me pull the country back the center.

13 years ago @ Big Government - The Nutty and Dangerou... · 5 replies · -48 points

Interesting that the video you've unearthed to mischaracterize OWS was authored by "TheLeftLibertarian," and represents the utopian fringe of the right as well as the left.

13 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Sa... · 6 replies · -8 points

While we're on the subject of the American Revolution http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/03/3339...

13 years ago @ Big Government - After Jimmy Hoffa Call... · 1 reply · -12 points

Hoffa's statement was crude and ugly. If the blogger makes it worse through deliberate omission, then he is deceiving his audience.

13 years ago @ Big Government - After Jimmy Hoffa Call... · 21 replies · -82 points

For the record, here's Hoffa's actual full quote: “Everybody here has a vote,” Hoffa said Monday. “If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.” http://bit.ly/nRIXvk

13 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Lo... · 0 replies · 0 points

cb750 Thank for your thoughtful reply, but the banking and oil rig examples are flawed -- if Glass-Stegall had not been repealed, the subprime crisis would not have happened, and the Gulf oil rig disaster occurred because BP and Transocean did not follow regulations, not because the regulations were ineffective.

Our nation is built on individualism, which is great, but there are some problems we need to organize to solve - we don't live in caves as extended family units, we're part of a nation of 300 million. That's where the government can be useful. Do you want drinkable water, safe food or interstate highways? How about the Internet? Similarly, our entrepreneurs would benefit from a boost in capturing the clean energy economy.

The discussion over what degree of authority the majority should have over the minority within the mechanism of government goes back to Jefferson and Hamilton, with our system ultimately giving the majority enough power to act while the law protects the minority -- and all of us owning the government as voters.

Have to go - watching National Clean Energy Summit http://bit.ly/q32AY6

13 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Lo... · 0 replies · -4 points

That's an odd response to what should be an empirically based argument. I'll chalk up up to blind faith.

13 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Lo... · 2 replies · -5 points

You would be right if I were wrong about the science, but it's simply the clear consensus, despite what the fossil fuel industry has done to try to muddy the waters with pseudo-science. You believe monolithic left conspiracy theories about climate science and you don't even look where the money for the contrary "studies" is coming from?

Let's say the science is right (or that we just want to end dependence on foreign oil). How do you do that, when the market is only incentivizing entrenched producers and consumers to continue doing exactly what they are doing? Then we have to organize ourselves in some manner, which we use our government for. It should do the least possible but no less -- for example a combination of incentives and taxes to unleash the power of technology and entrepreneurship in the clean energy space while making it worthwhile to use less fossil fuels.

I know you guys don't believe that market failure is possible, but capitalism works best when the pieces that don't are mitigated by minimal government action.

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