Thread: Where Do We Draw The Line?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

When you talk to people about Govt they recite the talking points like a parrot but when you bring up things that affect them directly and specifically they want Govt to be big and bigger.

My favorite slogan along these lines was 'Get your gov hands off my Medicare!'.

Originally Posted by joebehar

We both lost an opportunity recently with the keystone pipeline proposal.

It's not as simple. The cost of using your tar sands is pretty steep. That is if you factor in all the costs many of which are currently externalized. The numbers I saw were about $120/barel, so if the oil price drops below you loose money. The whole process was started with political deals and not a result of free market calculation of cost vs. benefit.