Re: [Vo]:Palin's comments on energy policy in WaPost

2009-07-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig Haynie wrote: There has never been a time in the 400 years of European settlements in North American when government did not intervene often and forcefully in the use of some types of private property. I agree that governments DO this sort of thing, but they shouldn't do this sort of t

Re: [Vo]:Palin's comments on energy policy in WaPost

2009-07-14 Thread Craig Haynie
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Craig Haynie wrote: > > I have to disagree with the implications of his email. In a free society, >> people don't get together and 'vote' on how to use other people's property. >> With regard to oil, it is not for anyone to decide how it's to

Re: [Vo]:Palin's comments on energy policy in WaPost

2009-07-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig Haynie wrote: I have to disagree with the implications of his email. In a free society, people don't get together and 'vote' on how to use other people's property. With regard to oil, it is not for anyone to decide how it's to be used . . . That is incorrect. In cases when property ave

Re: [Vo]:Palin's comments on energy policy in WaPost

2009-07-14 Thread Craig Haynie
I have to disagree with the implications of his email. In a free society, people don't get together and 'vote' on how to use other people's property. With regard to oil, it is not for anyone to decide how it's to be used, or if it's to be replaced, or what price is to be paid for it, other than the

[Vo]:Palin's comments on energy policy in WaPost

2009-07-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302852.html This really is on topic, I promise. Her comments are a distillation of Republican energy policy. She does not acknowledge even the possibility that: * Oil is a finite resource and we should be moving ra