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Democrat here

although I am proud to be a registered Independent.

ROFL.......17% for the war in Iraq. Nice one GWB, everytime I see a pole the Iraqi War approval rating gets less and less.
 
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Pretty accurate test. Centrist, dead on.

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Originally posted by: Future Shock
Originally posted by: Amused

I really weep for our future if this is the kind of crap they are feeding you in schools today.

For all your fatalistic bullsh!t, NONE of that has happened. There is no land logged to the point nothing grows. There is no farmland ruined by the big bad "acid rain."

And eminent domain goes against Rand's principles.

For every phantom ill you see from economic freedom, the social conservative sees the same number of phantom ills from social freedoms.

You're both elitist authoritarian ninnies.
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What do you mean today? Read my rigs in my sig - having purchased my first PC in 1981 during college I'm older than you most likely...you can call me daddy.

And you have NO fscking clue as to your facts. Read Jared Diamond's latest book "Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive" for DETAILED explanations of 8 major civilizations that have been destroyed via over foresting. Diamond is a anthropology professor at USC who's life work is studying the rise and fall of civilizations, and his work is peer reviewed. His cited references will give you about 200 more papers and books for further references should you need them - but the basic facts is that not only has humanity over forested and destroyed simply that forest (see Australia), in REPEATED cases (Easter Island, American Pueblo indians, etc.) deforestation brought down the entire civilization, as wood was a core technical requirement either for producing goods, or in their food chain.

But you are correct in that WE DON'T DO THAT NOW in the US (go to Australia if you would like to see a modern culture that until very recently STILL did that, and has deserts to show for it). And THAT is because of federal regulations preventing over foresting, including limiting the harvesting of old growth forests, mandatory replanting programs, etc. Since my original post was on how someone could be socially libertarian, and yet not a total proponent of unbridled business, I point these types of regulations as a success - business gets what it wants, but the externalities are factored in and the costs are borne by the businesses that created them. EXTERNALITIES was the econ word that I missed from my original post - it involves creating EXTERNAL COSTS from your own profit/loss calculations. In my mind, it IS the role of a central government to ensure that externalities are brought back into the profit/loss calculations of those businesses that are generating them. Hey, if you run a business, and can't deal with the externalities, they you are either a poor businessman (because you don't know how to price your product to include those costs), or a shyster. One or the other. Neither one merits defense.

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Daddy? You're at most 10 years older than me. :roll:

and all I'm reading here is more hype that doesn't apply to the US whatsoever.

The US has MORE trees today than it did when the first white settlers arrived. We KNEW the danger when we got here, and planted more than we cut. We were Europeans, after all. Mainly from England, a country that over harvested trees without replacing them and suffered for it.

Trees are a RENEWABLE resource. a CROP. The greenies don't cry over corn or wheat being cut, but gawd forbid you harvest a tree. :roll:

Federal regulations didn't do this. Smart business did this. You don't harvest yourself out of a job.

Again, name one forest in the US in which trees will not grow due to over harvesting. You cannot.

In fact, the ONLY dustbowl situation the US EVER faced was CAUSED by our government. Federal meddling caused over farming, and bad farming practices in the teens and 20s. Mix that in with a drought and we had a disaster. And none of that had anything to do with trees.

Most regulations are NOT a "success," but a hinderance. They are stacked laws. Laws intended to keep people from breaking already existing laws. Basically useless laws that do nothing to stop law breakers, but cause great hardship to the law abiding.

The only "shysters" here are those selling these regulations to the American people in the name of class envy and fear mongering... meanwhile driving business over seas and costing those same people their jobs.

Instead of reading hyped fiction, why not deal with reality?
 
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"I would dictate that...condoms should be given for free to all."
 
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That was friggin waste of time, i already knew i was.
 
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