11-05-2008, 05:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2008, 05:32 AM by [/sarcasm].)
Nobody's plan talks about bankrupting all coal companies. It's just the cap-and-trade system makes you pay more money the worse your emissions are to discourage bad emissions. And if you ignore your pollution completely, yes, you will probably be bankrupted.
Obama was taken out of context. He talked about punishing companies that didn't give a shit about carbon to promote clean coal technology. Which won't put coal miners out of a job and would shift the workers at coal energy plants to clean coal energy plants.
And Liberalism does have to do with equality. It uses the government to make sure that everyone has a decent shot at making it big, by propping up those that aren't making enough money to support their family, nationalizing healthcare so that everyone that wants healthcare has an opportunity to get it for free or little cost, and in this case improving the school system not by giving kids vouchers to go to private schools, but supplementing the public schools as they are so they can compete, and not in some indirect way by taking money away from the schools and trying to increase competition.
Also Obama "throwing money" at the college system so that it costs the students less to go to college works in my mind, because it is the responsibility of the country to make sure kids that want to go to college can go to college to make something of themselves and ultimately affect the country in a positive way. And in order to claim the 4 thousand dollar tax credit for college, students do community service for it. Works for me.
Obama was taken out of context. He talked about punishing companies that didn't give a shit about carbon to promote clean coal technology. Which won't put coal miners out of a job and would shift the workers at coal energy plants to clean coal energy plants.
And Liberalism does have to do with equality. It uses the government to make sure that everyone has a decent shot at making it big, by propping up those that aren't making enough money to support their family, nationalizing healthcare so that everyone that wants healthcare has an opportunity to get it for free or little cost, and in this case improving the school system not by giving kids vouchers to go to private schools, but supplementing the public schools as they are so they can compete, and not in some indirect way by taking money away from the schools and trying to increase competition.
Also Obama "throwing money" at the college system so that it costs the students less to go to college works in my mind, because it is the responsibility of the country to make sure kids that want to go to college can go to college to make something of themselves and ultimately affect the country in a positive way. And in order to claim the 4 thousand dollar tax credit for college, students do community service for it. Works for me.