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What kind of president will Obama be?
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20/01/2009 19:46:03
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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20/01/2009 19:20:02
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I am sorry but the assumption about "Armageddon" lives entirely in your imagination, i.e. it cannot be proven.

If you want to go down that path, scientists and philosophers say that *nothing* can be proven. Including your own opinions and beliefs about the world. So where are you hoping to go with that?

It surprises me that you use comparatively mild case of government interference to make blanket statements covering practically any case of interference including some already happened.

We are discussing a particular case in which government "interference" was involuntary. Approving of government action in these matters is completely different from advocating government interference in general. I'd also observe (again) that this is a story about market failure and incompetence with government stepping in reluctantly to clean up, not the other way around as you may have preferred.

Whether car manufacturer bail-outs are proper depends on whether you believe that a US car industry is useful for the US- assuming that manufacturers will indeed collapse if they don't receive funding, a concept which has not yet been "proven."

With all due respect, I'm not going to buy into all this divinity stuff you keep coming up with. This is a man-made problem with a man-made solution which in this case involved government doing something right. Happy to discuss any aspects of that.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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