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Skriven 2007-05-22 00:50:56 av Kurt Ullman (1220.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: unions
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In article <vvb4531v0nj337c9opf7f258u3odijmi4e@4ax.com>,
 Josh Hill <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote:



> Slashing the death rate from cancer (no one knows how to "cure" it)
 Small nit, but that isn't right.   Testicular cancers for the most part 
are cured (thanks to the boys at Indiana University, the 5-year cure 
rate runs about 90% or so. . Some of the forms of lukemia are cured. 
Most of the actual curing is being done by the private sector taking 
advantage of some of the basic research being done by the feds.
   
     


> Slashing the death rate from AIDS (again, no one knows how to cure it)

  But again most of the heavy lifting has been done by private 
entitities after the feds did much of the basic stuff. 

> Slashing our energy consumption below what it would otherwise have
> been
> 
> That last requires a bit of explanation. You point out, rightly, that
> the government didn't end our dependence on foreign oil. But you
> ignore the fact that that was in large measure because the
> anti-government, pro-business right, along with corrupt energy-funded
> politicians of every stripe blocked steps that would have moved us in
> the right direction. I think you'll admit that it's fairly silly to
> block government on the grounds that it's ineffectual and then say
> "See? Government is ineffectual." Yet that's what the anti-government
> right does all the time.

    So, you are in favor of an emminently corruptable entity being in 
charge of pretty much everythgin. 
> 
> >So, some predictions for what government could do if they got involved 
> >in the energy crisis business?  Sponsor Halliburton to build a massive 
> >hydrogen infrastructure across the US, including retrofitting pipelines, 
> >filling stations and massive electrolysis stations.  It would cost us 
> >billions, would feather the pork nests of 100s of congresscritters, and 
> >would leave us unable to move once we found out how much the cars and 
> >fuel would actually cost.
      Yet you want these guys to take over and run things? Wussup with 
dat? 

>
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