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Thanks Twotone. Great meeting you last weekend!
It is absurd we would use 1929 thinking in the year 21st century. Central planning has failed everywhere it has been tried.

[TomGuy]

It is absurd we would use 1929 thinking in the year 21st century. Central planning has failed everywhere it has been tried.

For liberalism/progressivism, it is not the result, but the effort that counts.

Observe it on smaller scales -- we see it, they don't. Paper or plastic -- to save the trees? Now, we have plastic. Now, plastic is evil. Reusables. Okay, but they are easily contaminated with deadly germs. So? The libs/progressives won. They never bother with unintended consequences.

Then, there is that Global Cooling that was going to send us into an ice age by the end of the century. But, Nature didn't cooperate, so it became Global Warming. Ironically, they could claim hot days and cold days, wet days and dry days, flood and famine and drought were all caused Global Warming. But as the scientific consensus and data behind the claims fell apart, they switched to Climate Change. That is general enough to cover every contingency -- except for those darn solar flares that can mess up the consensus claims.