Posted on 08/25/2005 6:01:04 PM PDT by HeebrewHammer
So let's keep on using them up!!!!
Ya... REALLY conservative.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Good grief. You sound like one of those "Zero Sum" types. Maybe your resources are finite but mine aren't. They are renewable and replenishable.
My goodness! I thought the man was saying that all of his daughters were smart & beautiful and he loved them all the same.
It's amazing what you can learn on FR.
In the bigger picture- the key is not to want. Okay, so we have infinite electricity... the world will instantly take it for granted and find some other resource to fret and moan about. All that new power may well cause inventions and new industries that kill the environment 10 times faster.
It never ends. People should all just be happy with what they have and live on small farms, if you want my opinion.
He contends that humans are the earths greatest resourse. He was an economist who laid to rest the tiresome arguments of overpopulation... At least for some.
BTW, Tax-Chicks eight kids... None of your business. Perhaps you should rethink some of the conservative ideas about intrusion.
Just a thought.
M
"There is good in the universe,and there is evil in the universe, and that distiction is not hard to make."
-Superman
In the bigger picture- the key is not to want.
Okay. Then the bigger picture is to NOT BE HUMAN.
Ya... cause you live on that mythical planet that's infinite in resources, eh?
Personally I believe that God made a world able to support all the humans He deigns to put here. I don't recall Him saying to go forth and multiply...until there are a certain billion of you!
Of course their my business.
They compete for resources, don't they?
Defusing the Population Bomb
(mentions Julian Simon)
http://www.cato.org/dailys/10-15-99.html
Bumpersticker seen:
My child consumes more energy than your honor student!
You claim that having more than two children is not conservative. You must have a definition of conservative in mind. As evidenced by your post 40, that definition is simplistic, based on an eighth grade etymological analysis (at least it was eight grade when I went to school) of the word.
I state that you have an opinion typical of a "morally" superior liberal ("morally" as defined by a liberal like Maureen Dowd).
So I'm calling you a liberal, and you say that I don't know what a conservative is.
Look really close at post 10. I did not claim to be a conservative.
My point is that your attitude is a typical liberal one.
And so far, you are admitting it.
A few nits.
In post 28 you mean "affect", not "effect". Your misuse of the word hoard has already been noted.
And your contention that having your errors noted means you have won the argument is specious (post 32).
They grow up to be adults that compete for the limited (and yes... they ARE limited) resources.
I know most of you can not understand this... but I am both a conservative AND an environmentalist. And Humans have taken over enough resources, and should leave some for the rest of the web.
That's because she is a feminist wolf in a conservative ewe's clothing. To be liberated from the burden of men and male children is ultimate goal.
The "SCUM manifesto" was published in 1983 by Valerie Solanas, a radical U.S. feminist previously known for attempting to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968. In the book's title, SCUM stands for the Society for Cutting Up Men. Within its covers, Solanas calls on women to "destroy the male sex," arguing that medical science made it possible to give birth only to females and without the aid of males.
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2417
I bet she has a pet dog that subs for a child. A lot of liberals do that these days.
We grow more grain and produce on less land than any point in history. That same produce and grain is priced so low the gov. subsidizes the producers.
We produce more lumber (end product) than at any time in our history and the U.S. has more trees (standing) than ever in our history.
Metal prices are very low compared with historical data. Petroleum products as well. The spike, whether in metals (ore) or petroleum is based on inept planning by governments, not the lack of resource.
We make more efficient use of existing resources by expand technology into more efficient areas. That is the beauty of the free market. Not the gluttonous consumption you seem to see.
If what you say is to be true, then I would think that we would be paying exorbitant prices for damn near everything, since from the industrial age on, we have been using more and more resources as well as expanding population. Truth be told, we (the U.S. as well as the rest of the world) live better than at any time in our histories. We have more choice as to what to purchase (food, energy) by way of sustenance, that we can now buy all kinds of luxuries. The poor in America have only a 25" color t.v. and one car...
Government intervention in the free flow of ideas and invention have proven to be a much bigger hindrance to prosperity than any 'resource gathering' by the peoples therein.
BTW, Teddy Roosevelt was a Conservationist, not a Conservative. Bull Moose party I believe.
M
That's just sad. I'm not sure how that makes you an "environmentalist" but I suppose you must have your own definition of what that is so there's no use arguing with you.
Is it possible to be a conservative AND an environmental CONSERVATIonist? How about conservative and watermelon (Green on the outside, Red on the inside)?
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