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In ye olden post Michael Wise <nospam@nospam.net> spake...
>In article <t6p9pcjj0q39d0@corp.supernews.com>, cberry@cinenet.net 
>(Craig Berry) wrote:
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>> MiltonJohnKleim wrote:
>> : George W. Bush will earn himself the eternal legacy as "The Man Who
>> : Caused the Second Great Depression" unless he puts his friends at
>> : Enron, Dynegy, etc., in place for a while, and helps solve the
>> : California Energy Crisis.
>> 
>> I am extremely unhappy to have Bush in office, but in this case, I have to
>> agree with him.  We the people and government of California caused this
>> problem ourselves, though a decade of shortsighted legislation and poor
>> capacity planning.  We alone are to blame, and I for one would be ashamed
>> to ask people in other states to bail us out.  We need to revisit the
>> relevant legislation and conserve power in the short term, and build more
>> generators in the long term.
>> 
>> The federal government has a legitimate role in helping regions recover
>> from natural disasters.  Recovery from stupidity should be left as a
>> lesson for those responsible.
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>Does building houses next in low lying river areas prone to flooding 
>constitute stupidity?


Or building on shale cliffs facing the ocean? Or on hiisides with stilts
to support your house?


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