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To: goldworldnet who wrote (345275)	8/1/2007 4:29:59 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578842

"I guess the main problem for libertarianism is that there are just too many people today." The problem as I see it is everyone has to have a stake in the community for it to work. Once you have those who don't have a stake, they can game the system to their advantage. And just about the only recourse is for someone to shoot them... Tim, for example, rails against any regulation of businesses, especially environmental ones. I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast, spang in the middle of the largest refinery complex in the world. Pre-EPA things were pretty grim. The smoke was so thick that people would drive with their lights on during the day. There was so much SO2 in the air that on high humidity days, and they were often, the air would eat big holes in pantyhose. Concrete would literally rot, and it would eat the paint off of a house in a couple of years. And the rate of certain normally rare cancers was very high. One time they tried to do a population study on a stretch of the Neches River around Beaumont. They pulled a seine for several miles. They caught a carp and a gar, and the carp was dead. But that changed after the EPA started regulating. It had to be on an industry-wide basis, waiting for individual companies to do anything won't work. Margins are so narrow that if a company didn't comply, they had a significant cost advantage. So that means it is either all or none with little in-between.