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To: Road Walker who wrote (348036)	8/30/2007 5:29:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574980

Funny, I don't hear the same concern about the ramifications of globalization. Because globalization is on the net a MASSIVE creator of wealth. Think about the disruption caused by the personal computer over the last 15 years. How many products did it eliminate? How many skills did it make redundant? Again something that created wealth, not an expense to oppose some claimed disaster. Now if the disaster really is as bad as say Al Gore thinks it is, than the expense would probably be worth it (despite it being so massive), but there is a difference between investing in new productive technologies with a real market demand, and the normal "creative destruction" that goes along with that on one hand, and re-creating old infrastructure that is rendered useless of at least worth much less, because of political decisions on the other. There is a difference between response to consumer demand, and political directives from on high.