Posted on 10/23/2005 6:35:27 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
I notice you are from Alaska. I can understand why you might feel defensive. Please see things from our perspective. Maybe Alaska's politicians should work more on privatizing and developing more of that land instead of bleeding the taxpayers down her in the mainland.
Well, if Coburn was proposing an amendment aimed squarely at Alaska, that was foolish.
You are ignorant and wrong. Alaska is an example of what is wrong with this country. All those resources, and most off-limits. Alaskan development is frozen, has been frozen since coal was discovered in the Copper Valley. Most of the land in Alaska has been placed off-limits to development: it's all a giant national park and recreation area thanks to Carter. Big Oil gets the Prudhoe Bay oil, but the big corporations want the rest of the resources frozen so they can develop their own property. Learn something.
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Exactly, we need a Reagan, someone that isn't afraid of the media and talks over the left rather than trying to win them over. We need a leader that will respond to them like the intellectual ants and perverts they are and even set their ant hills on fire when necessary. The PC crap relativistic neo-feminine approach to government has to be discarded, it is destorying this country and making us weak and spoiled. We don't need more people who care, we need people who will tear down the bureaucratic structure and gut the fat and the incompetence out and know where their caring and our wallets end.
What do you think Stevens, Murkowski, and Young are doing? It is not easy to fight the big, modern corporation. Ask Montana. It's not the politicians, the politicians are puppets. Alaska is frozen because the true power, the Carnegies, etc., have valuable properties elsewhere and don't want the competition. Alaska itself cannot do what the entire Federal Gummint cannot do. Only oil is being developed, and that only because the corporations want it done.
Spending a boatload of our money! All I hear about is the money and the bridge ... don't hear much about Alaska's politicians fighting corporations. Come to think of it, I haven't heard this before you and thackney mentioned it. Maybe that's why the government isn't that concerned with deficits and debt. If we get too far behind and in the red the Feds can always start selling all the land they own. Just a thought ...
The corporations the Gummint allowed to be created are much more important to the country than is the Gummint. The Gummint does the bidding of the corporations. That is the real power. But, if we do something to take control of the corporations we ought to be real careful because the American style of corporations is the engine of America. The engine is not broke, but it is sputtering. We don't want to do something that would leave the economy sitting up on blocks in the front yard.
Good points. I agree with everything you said. Maybe the corporations can build "bridges to nowhere". :)
If they want to make a big difference, they ought to connect the Alaska Railroad to Canada. Price tag I don't know, but the Alaska Railroad is running in the black. They should augment that system.
Stevens tried to out box Boxer for the dimmest bulb title.
You haven't heard two decades of news about trying to develop the Coastal Plain of ANWR?
There are now 16 separate national wildlife refuges in Alaska with approximate 77 million acres. Can you imagine that much area closed to development? Why are you surprised at all that we are not productive?
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