🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <t6p9pcjj0q39d0@corp.supernews.com>, 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.



Does building houses next in low lying river areas prone to flooding 
constitute stupidity?

--Mike