Posted on 08/06/2004 2:37:27 PM PDT by Willie Green
I, and every other man, women and child on this planet, have a God-given inalienable right to the freely breathe the air that surrounds us WITHOUT any financial/economic system granting us permission to do so. To suggest that such a right is a transferrable, marketable commodity that can be bought/sold/traded by government authorized artificial corporate entities acting as risk assessing certification agents is absolutely ludicrous. Fabricating an artificial, complex system of bureacratic legal documents and contracts so our natural resources can be "managed" by a bunch of money-grubbing Enron-style daytraders is the epitome of idiocy.
A true free market is efficient.
And efficiency abhors the artificial complexity you seek to impose to harness market forces.
Your proposal is hooey, but I congratulate you on your success as an author.
There are many "free market" fanatics who are so mesmerized by the mantra that they'll buy into any convoluted proposal that satiates their addiction to market jargon. You do have a very unique twist on this fad, so I hope you sell enough books to maintain a respectable standard of living. But like the authors who specialize in investigating BigFoot, the Loch Ness monster, crop circles, etc. etc., I don't take your proposal seriously. Sorry.
Right on, Willie. "Emissions markets" and other such constructs are mainly an excuse to have the U.N. skim their house take from the casino they create for those purposes.
These are no markets but travesties of markets. End farm subsidies, and uneconomical farming will end in the U.S., and the remaining farmers will not have to compete with the government or plant as they are told to by the government.
Amen. True markets naturally evolve to provide tangible goods and service demanded by individual consumers.
So-called "market driven environmentalism" relies on the creation of an artificial commodity that no individual consumer actually wants or needs to purchase. It's just another phoney and complex financial shell game dreamed up by lawyers, beancounters and bureaucrats to skim some money off the cash flow.
That's exactly why we have farm subsidies.
And that's exactly why the marxist left-wing want to end our farm subsidies.
Thanks I was having a dificult time with this thread. Now I understand.
Pretty scarey stuff, isn't it?
Where does a big city newspaper get it's expertise on farming. On a Sunday drive through the countryside? How can the newspaper claim farming is so inefficient and in need of subsidy when airlines and public transportation also requires federal subsidy to remain in operation? How about big steel mills in Pitt? How much subsidy do they get for their products? Perhaps federal subsidy of all business should end and then we could really see the impact of how much influence a government "we the people" subsidy has on everyday life.
As for feeding the rest of the world, apparantly our "inefficient farming system" is among the most efficient in the world if we are able to export billions of dollars worth of food items to the rest of the "efficient but starving " world.
Add the drug companies to the subsidized list, they look like the big hogs at the table.
You have it backwards,
This left-wing rag is in favor of elimination of subsidies.
Their goal is to allow predatory competition to erode the stability of the agriculture sector and jeopardize our food supply.
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