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Originally Posted by camaraderie
Finally, what Craig fails to understand is that the market will bring discipline.
THAT's the CONSERVATIVE answer to the energy crisis. One that WORKS.
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Ok, so you then consider the current crisis perfect "working".
One could say that. But the problem with your unregulated market discipline is that it works too late. It takes many years to design new cars and retool factories. Yet, as we saw last year, it only takes 3 months for the price of oil to double or triple. The two can never meet.
There is such a thing as the real world. Just as you expect someone having a child to PLAN for the next 20+ year afterward, we have to PLAN for macro issues in our economy. I have seen this quite a few times with energy - we set a policy, it actually works...then we pull the rug out from under the entire industrial base.
Cars are NOT spinach. I am with you 100% on the market dictating the cost of spinach week to week. But when it comes to health care, energy and other macro issues which require years or decade of planning, I AM FOR HAVING A PLAN.
And that is what makes a progressive different from a conservative. We believe in learning the lessons of the past and planning in such a way as to benefit all of us in the future.