> From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think the best empirical evidence that falsifies your above conclusions > is to simply compare the number of public policy think tanks on the right > vs. those of the left.
All funded by Billionaire Right-Wing Sugar Daddies, Like Moon, Sciafe, Ahmanson, Coors. > Many leftists have recently publicly mourned the > relative lack of ideas from the left compared to those of the right. Um. No. One of the dumbest things you've ever said. > Allow me to present a a few brief examples of the sort of ideas being > spawned, developed, and promoted from the "right" at places like Cato, > Heritage, and AEI: > > School Vouchers Oh yes, lets take 33% of the money going to public schools and give it to 1% of the population, and send them to schools that hostile to science and evolution. Lets just discard that whole first amendment whatsit. > Military Transformation Sure, lets take our lean mean capable machine, and bloat it up, and draft people who don't particularly want to serve. Those draftees who will be coming (after the election) will be SO much better of a fighting force than the voluntary one we have now. > Emissions Trading Sure lets do more to help destroy the planet. I mean with that whole armegediin thingamgo we don't need to be stewards and property caretakers, we loot and pillage and destroy as much as we want. > Medical Savings Accounts Great, Lets give the rich even _more_ tax shelters that they can use to transfer all of their wealth into and pass on to their children. I love these feudal lords we have. I really do. > Social Security Privitization Yay, lets make it so when the stock market fluctuates or crashes, _entire_ demographic sections of the population will become destitute. Useless eaters anyway. > In previous incarnations of this discussion, you have somehow managed to > attribute every idea in the world to the left. But I propose a simple > theorem here: each and every one of the above ideas is supported by more > Congressional Republicans than Congressional Democrats. Moreover, > opposition to each and every one of the above ideas has a center of gravity > planted firmly among left-leaning liberal Democrats. Because the world faced fascism once, and we want to prevent it from ever happening again. > And yet, where is the left-wing plan for fighting terroism and enhancing > homeland security? Where is the leftist plan for education other than > writing blank checks? Where is the left-wing plan on the environment, > other than ever-more draconian regulation? Where is the left-wing plan > for keeping Medicare and Social Security solvent other than hiking taxes? If we roll back the Shrub tax cuts for the millionaires the entire deficit goes away. No amount of 'spending' cuts, discretionary and/or mandatory does that. > If those are the left-wing solutions that you deem worthy of twenty-first > century minds, then I am more than happy to have freed my mind from the > failed solutions of the past. Evil lives on... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
