!@#$%^&*() wrote:
I'm not a fucking liberal!! I'm a nasty racist, and if I were in power, all illegals would be deported, no anchorbabies would be permitted, Israel would cease to recieve military support, and the US would be fixing its infrastructure and researching alternative energy sources. You know, taking care of the real problems, instead of the made-up problems?
I'll handle this separately because you've got some meat here. 12 million hispanic illegals should be deported, but most of them are doing jobs that American citizens couldn't be paid to do for any amount of money. I'll you an example, Tabasco sauce. There is no way to harvest these by machine, they must be hand-picked. Your hands get horrible cuts and scrapes if you don't know what you're doing. Americans aren't willing to do this in Lousiana, so they get migrant workers to pick the damn things. They're willing to do it, Americans are not. So they do perform a useful part of our economy.
In a perfect world, I'd agree that we wouldn't support Israel militarility. In a perfect world, we'd send a UN mission in there and force the Palestinians and Israelis to live together under a joint government. But it's not a perfect world, and in the real world, funding Israel in a sea of arab hate is a geopolitical necessity. Who else is going to do that, Bangladesh? It's up to us to be the world's policeman, like it or not.
As for researching alternative energy sources, what idiot would believe the government has the best track record in such innovation? (This also goes for medical cures from federally-funded stem cell research as opposed to private sector research). Liberal Democrats cannot point to any track record of the federal government in invention, innovation, or research. That has always come from the private sector. This means that no matter how many billions the federal government throws at alternative energies, none have been found so far that are cheaper than oil.
Windmills, ecofuels, geothermal, solar power, none of them can meet an industrial nation's power demand. None of them. That's a basic economic fact, and until you get past that, oil will drive our power needs.
Now Dick Cheney and President Bush have advocated the restarting of closed nuclear power plants and the building of new nuclear power plants to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. I think that's a great idea. And that's what the French have done, and liberals love everything the French do, so I would think we'd get some bipartisanship on nuclear power.
But we all know the American left isn't really concerned about America's energy, they just look for wedge issues to divide the country. Just like they're really not concerned with curing Christopher Reeve's paralysis or Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's, these are just wedge issues to grant them power.
-Ogami