🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:33:32 -0000, cberry@cinenet.net
(Craig Berry) wrote:

>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.
>

Building houses on flood plains without flood insurance,
should we just let those people in Iowa die because they
were stupid?  Building houses right next to national
forests, should we just let those people burn because they
are stupid?
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> --*--  "The hills are burning, and the wind is raging; and the clock
>   |   strikes midnight in the Garden of Allah." - Don Henley