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To: carranza2 who wrote (213691)	1/20/2007 12:39:49 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

"The point is that the left offers nothing, is intellectually bankrupt, and does not appreciate very real dangers. " I'm not sure how you are using "the left", but if you are using it as a synonym for "people who disagree with me", then you need to know that 1. the "left" is not monolithic 2. it has many ideas and 3. many appreciate the dangers, and the fact that people might differ with you over ways and means to cure the dangers, is not a failure to appreciate them. PS- there is an insult annex to this thread. You and Neolib might enjoy using it, for the more "robust" portions of your dialog. Subject 56940

To: carranza2 who wrote (213691)	1/20/2007 12:51:00 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

Do we give them the finger or do we work with them because they have something we need and need badly? The point is that the left offers nothing, is intellectually bankrupt, and does not appreciate very real dangers. The problem with people on the right is that they will spend any amount of money on wars so that market forces rule in energy. Why not spend the war money on non-market intervention in energy fields? Stupidity can be found on the left and right quite equally, and generally along ideologically predictable lines. I happen to favor market practices in general, but I will take non-market economic intervention prior to external wars, even if the cost delta is a multiple.