"HeyBub" wrote in
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Han wrote:
-MIKE- wrote in news:gtitkj$gan$3
@news.motzarella.org:

Robatoy wrote:
You guys had your ass handed to you, now suck it up and try again.
Simply being against Obama for the sake of being contrary is a weak
position and laughable.

That's very true.

Thankfully, I have two very good reasons to be against him.

1. His domestic policy.

With what he has been handed, he is doing the best he can. The only
alternative would have been to hand out money directly to individuals
to clear their debts and after that had been done, to purchase
high-value consumer goods.

Investing in technologies that will be needed in the future is good
business sense.

To invest in technologies and policies that increase the
cost-effective use of healthcare in all its aspects is good economics
and sensible.

etc, etc.

Agreed. Investment is good. When investment is done by the government,
however, weatlth, initative, and progress are destroyed. Government
cannot, and must not, be the driving engine behind progress.

Hah, what are taxes and tax exemptions for if not stimulating or
punishing specific finaicial decisions, especially concerning investment?

Here's just one example: The current drive for ethanol - mandated by
the government - drives up the cost of food, harms the environment,
and does not address the underlying causes for the "ethanol solution."

I agree. It is part protectionism (Brazil makes ethanol cheaper than the
US), and the laws of unintended consequences. The legislation was made
to enhance the income of corn producers. While corn has many good
qualities, one of the worst (and most unheralded) is that it depletes the
soil of nutrients. In fact, rotating corn and legumes is almost
necessary, unless you really want to support the fertilizer chemists.

Insisting that ethanol is the panacea today is very much like a
novelist proposed regarding soy beans some fifty years ago.

Sorry, I think a word is missing. Did you mean "like what a novelist"?
Even then I don't get it without more specifics. I do remember that soy
and soybeans are supposed to a panacea.


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Best regards
Han
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