Obviously Mathew, you are a neocon. Just like Barney Frank had nothing to do with the fall of fannie/freddie...even though you can read NYT stories about it...all a neocon plot.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Matthew S. Taylor <taylorsmatt...@gmail.com>wrote: > Tom, > > Did you ever notice that most of the big urban areas, with the big breaking > water mains and such (and troubling schools, and pot hole filled roads) are > not run by your pet bogeymen, the cons/neocons, but mostly by liberals / > political machine Democrats? Could it be that pandering to unions and > appeasing every interest group in site has not worked? > > Matthew > > > On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: > > Not if the laws of the jurisdiction mandate such up front. I also >>> never said there should not be adequate planning - I assume it is the >>> duty of the government to plan for such eventualities. Are you >>> telling me you are not? >>> >> >> I think the cons/neocons describe this as passing debts on to future >> generations. Past generations built the infrastructure. Then the >> cons/neocons got control and screamed "no taxes -- I want to be free" >> (probably because they were hippies in their youth). Then the bridges >> started to fall down, the water mains broke, and the power grid failed. >> Now guess who has to pay the debt: it is us. >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
