Comments on: For the Children! Still! http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/ The FreedomWorks blog dedicated to lower taxes and more freedom. Sat, 17 May 2008 10:25:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Sickle http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79089 Sickle Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:18:00 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79089 Peter, what you wrote makes sense. What that guy wrote didn't make any sense at all. Peter, what you wrote makes sense. What that guy wrote didn’t make any sense at all.

]]> By: Mister Guy http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79083 Mister Guy Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:35:59 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79083 That's the thing though...alternative energy sources don't have to be "more expensive". Imagine what position this country would have been in today if we continued to focus on conservation & alternative energy sources like Jimmy Carter wanted us to over 30 years ago? Still not seeing any easy way to get to the posts that are older than the ones displayed on the front page of this website. That’s the thing though…alternative energy sources don’t have to be “more expensive”. Imagine what position this country would have been in today if we continued to focus on conservation & alternative energy sources like Jimmy Carter wanted us to over 30 years ago?

Still not seeing any easy way to get to the posts that are older than the ones displayed on the front page of this website.

]]> By: Peter Suderman http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79073 Peter Suderman Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:12:50 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79073 It's really not that difficult to follow. Complaints about a process being more expensive are usually portrayed as whiny upper-middle class types who don't want to sacrifice their three-car garage. Bailey's point is that requiring more expensive methods from poor, third-world countries is not just a matter of luxury, but a matter of life or death. When you're struggling to make a dollar a day, drastic economic changes like those that are likely to follow carbon-rationing have serious consequences. The follow-up is that wealthier, more technologically advanced societies are more capable of addressing environmental challenges. So why not wait till further down the road, when we're wealthier, more knowledgeable, have more resources, etc. rather than succumb to panic now and enact policies (like, say, Kyoto) that are both hugely expensive (thus having a ripple effect on future wealth) and completely ineffectual? It’s really not that difficult to follow.

Complaints about a process being more expensive are usually portrayed as whiny upper-middle class types who don’t want to sacrifice their three-car garage. Bailey’s point is that requiring more expensive methods from poor, third-world countries is not just a matter of luxury, but a matter of life or death. When you’re struggling to make a dollar a day, drastic economic changes like those that are likely to follow carbon-rationing have serious consequences.

The follow-up is that wealthier, more technologically advanced societies are more capable of addressing environmental challenges. So why not wait till further down the road, when we’re wealthier, more knowledgeable, have more resources, etc. rather than succumb to panic now and enact policies (like, say, Kyoto) that are both hugely expensive (thus having a ripple effect on future wealth) and completely ineffectual?

]]> By: Mister Guy http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79038 Mister Guy Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:23:07 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79038 I think ruining the environment because it's simply cheaper is silly and short-sighted. What's up with the front page of this blog's website? It looks like the posting below this post has screwed up the website or something... I think ruining the environment because it’s simply cheaper is silly and short-sighted.

What’s up with the front page of this blog’s website? It looks like the posting below this post has screwed up the website or something…

]]> By: Sickle http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79004 Sickle Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:13:07 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/03/25/for-the-children-still/#comment-79004 I honestly couldn't follow his point. It didn't make any sense to me. I honestly couldn’t follow his point. It didn’t make any sense to me.

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