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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (27374)	12/22/2009 5:11:21 PM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 36917

Cap and trade revenue ... should be re-directed to private industry to fund research and development of new technologies of greater efficiencies. Perhaps, but it will just be another source of tax revenues. Perhaps a small portion will be distributed as grants, but if any it would be a drop from the flood. Government takeover of the healthcare sector, at this point is fundamental. There will be increased business for the whole sector. There will be plenty of adjustments to the industry. We can expect it to run about as efficiently as the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Do our great great grandchildren get to be part of a reparation settlement for the lousy healthcare? Reparations for our premature death from it? Most Americans now realise that a government takeover is a terrible idea. I doubt anyone who supports it has any interest in the values of our founding fathers. The comparison to farming is interesting. The tale is a very revisionist one. It may be true, but the real cause for innovation in farming was that factory work in cities was draining rural areas of their cheap abundant labor pool. As the cost of labor increases the relative cost of mechanization decreases. Larger farms are almost always run more professionally than small family plots. So is the lesson here we need to remove labor from medicine? Everything should be done roboticly? That might save some serious money.