I'm with ya with a few exceptions: Energy:
I don't think drilling in ANWAR is the way to go, studies indicate that there's only about five years of oil in there, it'll take five year to ramp it up. I think it's a waste of time and resources for very little gain. Off shore drilling is feasable, and I don't have a problem with it, provided that the companies that own the rigs do their due dilegance and do everything in their power to prevent accidents, and are made to clean up in case of an accident. I also don't have a problem with nuclear power, I just wish they'd find a more permanent and lasting solution to the radioactive waste that it creates. I don't trust Progress Energy to have amything other than it's own greed at heart when it comes to this, they'll do whatever knee jerk solution costs them the least. We must bring alternative fuels (read non-fossil fuels) on line sooner than later, we are going to run out of oil, it's just a matter of when. Health Care: there needs to be a mechanism in place for those who can't afford health insurance to have access to good health care at a resonable (or no) cost. The guy flipping hamburgers at McDonalds for minimum wage and supporting kids, needs all of his money for food and shelter, he needs a hand. Oil Companies: I'm tired of being raped by the oil companies, I don't buy into their bs about prices, they test the market during the summer driving season, to see what the market will bear, when we continue to drive them to profit, they set their prices for the year, we said we'd tolerate $4.00 a gallon, look for prices to stick at around $3.75 a gallon after summer. I'll predict $4.50 to $5.00 next summer. They need to be raked over the Congressional coals and made to change their business model, I don't mind them making a profit on reasonable rates, but their making trillions by price gouging, profits are supposed to make prices stick or go down. Abortion: It's a personal choice, it's legal and it should stay that way, this is a non issue. Besides this really should be a state issue not a federal issue. It's not my choice but, I won't be a party to dictating what someone can or can't do with their own body. Gun Control: We have laws on the books, lets enforce them. I don't know that legislating new laws that won't be enforced is an answer. Background checks can be done quickly, you can have your gun and license in a couple of days. I'm curious, about the NRA crowd, how do we make unlicensed handguns harder to get? I've never seen them address this. I'm all about small government staying out of our personal lives, and only interfering with companies when it's obvious that something illegal is being done (see oil companies) -------------- Original message from "Rick Root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > I'm a liberal, I think. > > I pro-choice. I believe in much tighter gun control. I think we > should help the poor and the stupid. I think Exxon should be forced > to pay their fucking debt to Alaska with 20 fucking years of interest. > I think we should have some kind of nationalized health care for > children and college students. > > I think we should do more research into alternative fuels. I do > believe we should reduce our dependence on foreign oil and > conservation, mass transit, and alternative fuels are excellent long > term options. > > I am a liberal.. but not an environmental wacko. > > I think we SHOULD be drilling in Alaska and off our coastlines. The > alaskan pipeline is not the environmental disaster that the > environmental wackos said it would be. I don't believe that oil rigs > off the coast of north carolina are going to be harmful to the coastal > environment. All them rigs out in the Gulf survived Katrina just > fine. I might be worried if that volcano in Africa exploded and fell > into the Atlantica all of the sudden, but if that happend, we'd have > bigger problems (the tsumani could potentially flood the entire > eastern seabord to 100 miles inland!) > > We need to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil sooner than later, > and research is a LONG term solution. > > I also think we should be building MORE nuke plants. I live within 10 > miles of the Harris facility just outside of Raleigh, NC. It has one > reactor but the design is capable of sustaining 5 reactors. I'm okay > with that. I think nuclear power is safe and we should use more of it > not less. > > If electric cars and plug-in hybrids are coming our way, and i think > they are, we need more electricity, and I'd rather it be nuclear than > coal powered. > > We see ads around here for "Clean Coal" all the time... but Duke Power > still wants to build dirty coal plans. I don't support that. I don't > know that much about "clean coal" but I certainly don't like the sound > of "dirty coal". > > Drill for oil whereever we can, and build more nuke plants. > > I guess I'm not all liberal.... ;) > > > -- > Rick Root > New Brian Vander Ark Album, songs in the music player and cool behind > the scenes video at www.myspace.com/brianvanderark > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263075 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
