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[mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 4:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World
>>Not to be sarcastic, but probably yes. Money from bitumin brings money for
research into environmental remediation. It also helps liberate people from
pouring cash into the OPEC world, which seems to only inflame Muslim
passions. Plus the Canadians are world class technologists and will likely
invent more efficient engines, and also fund the green technologies that you
crave. Theres a reason why poor nations do not do technology well.
You have a cornucopian view that we can go on making horrible messes on this
planet without worrying about the consequences because somehow it will all
get magically remediated.... yeah like that actually happens in the real
world. Remediation is a cost center NOT a profit center; it is done only to
the minimum level necessary in order to stay just this side of the law. You
are free to say whatever you want of course, but I find it difficult to
believe your hypothesis that the very same humans who profit from raping the
earth will -- after the fact and after they have lined their pockets with
ill-gotten wealth -- will somehow do a 180 degree turn and start behaving in
the altruistic noble manner you seem so certain they will.
Are you saying that the Arabs would be happier if they had no oil wealth...
that all this money has made them hopping mad? Green technologies are
already proving themselves -- without your plucky Canadian tar sand
billionaires (some of whom are Texans by the way) deciding to invest their
profits in green technology -- as if they would.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris de Morsella <cdemorse...@yahoo.com>
To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 3:29 pm
Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World
Those plucky Canadians -- as you term them -- are criminally destroying vast
swaths of Alberta turning it into a poisoned chemical saturated moonscape as
well as sucking up vast amounts of water from other potential uses --
including agriculture. Will the bitumen sweated out of that sand be worth
the ultimate costs to get it?
On Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:24 AM, Jesse Mazer
<laserma...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote:Fur
sure, that was the truth. Now we got's shale gas, which seems to pay a lot
better, is safer to go after, and is cleaner, carbon-wise. Unless you are
buying into technological unemployment (robots, software) then we have to
face the fact. BHO's Keynesian way has fallen on its ass and has stayed
down, like a fighter throwing a fight, after a payoff.
I've read Keynesians like Paul Krugman say that the level of stimulus was
actually not enough by Keynesian standards (and too much went to tax cuts),
but certainly the US economy with its level of stimulus did much better than
most of the states that more thoroughly rejected Keynesianism and instead
chose austerity in the midst of a recession, like the UK...see various
graphs at http://graphsagainstausterity.tumblr.com/ (click on any graph to
see the original article it came from)
Increased government employment doesn't seem to generate tax revenue very
well.
Except government employment hasn't increased under Obama, it's actually
been steadily decreasing during his presidency (apart from a brief spike
when the decennial census was taken and they needed a lot of temporary
census workers), due mostly to the Republicans in Congress, whereas under
George W. Bush government employment was steadily increasing (this
collapsing of the public sector is probably contributing quite a bit to the
slow recovery). See the two graphs showing private sector and public sector
jobs under Bush and Obama here:
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/04/public-and-private-
sector-payroll-jobs-bush-and-obama.html
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