Climate Change Report

[Warriorbird]

Temporarily, sure. Let me ask you...if you were an educated man, and you knew that choice A would make you homeless, and choice B would make you stable but not living above your means...which would you take?

Personally, I would take B, and look for ways to make "my means" equal with "my desires".

Anything less is a placebo effect. History bears this out time and time again...how many were homeless after the French Revolution? After the Bolsheviks? Taking from the rich and giving to the poor, as a government model, never has and never will work. The only thing that will ever work is a free society where people are allowed to make their own decisions, but are also forced to deal with the results of those decisions. For the most part our nation has only had half of that, because after great domestic tragedies it gives excuses for stupid people to allow more government controls on their lives, instead of taking their lumps and figuring out something better next time. We allow these transgressions to "soften the blow" of downfalls that we ourselves have created.

It's like stepping into a punji pit and later getting your leg amputated from infection, and then running off traipsing through the woods again as if nothing happened, because the government has told you they're going to put pads inside the punji pits from now on.

The problem is deregulation and taking from the poor doesn't work either. We had more economic downturns before the advent of the mixed economy that you hate. Many more. We made less money too. Striking a midway point is the ideal. When I go to Denmark I see how much we aren't about "taking from the rich and giving to the poor" at all, comparatively.