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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (114139)6/29/2009 12:17:38 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (3) of 541432
 
Rambi;

You are undecided about GW. You are unconvinced by Krugmans argument - maybe even turned off a little? Can you get into the following argument;

Do you think that the transfer of wealth from America to third world countries is good for America? Boone Pickens the oil calls it the biggest transfer of wealth ever done. ....... We don't fight for democracy in Sudan - should we fight for it in Iraq? Well of course the point is that we are not fighting for democracy but are fighting to protect our oil supply. But by being chicken unable to allow the REAL cost of oil to be paid at the gas pump, we pretend the war is for some fuzzy reason that is just false. ......America has a huge increase in the numbers of cancers, people with allergies and asthma. Should the medical cost of these things - some of which are related to pollution - be applied to the cost of oil? How about the human cost? .....Other countries have rocketed past America in their production of green technology. These are great jobs that make those countries stronger in two ways; first the economic advantage they provide with good jobs, and second they have less dependance on that dwindling finite resource - oil. .....And what if the GW alarmist are right? Are you willing to bet the welfare of your children on our continual OIL gluttony - when its just stupid to do so based on pragmatic reasons based only on conservative ideology?
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