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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (78910)	8/11/2006 8:48:43 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

When you allow the wholesale price to float, but don't allow long term contracts, and set limits on the retail price, you enable market manipulation in both legal and illegal ways, and also generally set yourself up for failure even if there is no attempt at price-fixing or unusual market manipulation. Again, you're blaming the victims for the criminal's crime. No, I'm blaming them for what they did. Their actions would have caused problems without any crime, and they also made the crime much more likely. If someone has a very secure house that would normally be very difficult to break in to, but they leave a window open and go away, they might be inviting problems. Maybe rain comes in and damages their house. That doesn't require any crime. Also maybe a burglar comes in and ransacks the place. The victim of the burglary isn't morally responsible for the burglary, but they should be blamed for leaving the window open. Esp. if they where taking care of someone else's place. The government of CA has a certain responsibility to take care of CA (or really just the legitimate functions of government within CA). They failed at that responsibility. Both in the sense that they "let the rain in the house", and in the sense that they enabled the burglar. And there is nothing amoral about pointing that out. That doesn't mean you don't go after the burglar. No responsibility is shifted. Each person or group is responsible for their own actions.