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mk @ Apr 11th 2008 6:33PM
If only the government would leave well enough alone.
This sort of thing is nowhere in the enumerated powers of the US constitution.
Take any topic. Find the problems going on with it...
chances are the government started those problems, and is creating more problems by try and fix them.
Our rights, milk, honey, money, or heath do not flow down from the government on high. They are granted to people by our very definition. Government cannot possess rights, so how can it grant them to the people?
Reagan was right. The government is the problem, not the solution.
If the government would leave well enough alone, and simply do their constitutionally bound AND limited duties to protect people from outright crime, fraud, and external attacks, then we would be free to let our purchasing power decide which cars survive and which ones don't. Or any other product.
The market would be more efficient at it, if the government didn't take horrendously large amounts of most productive people's pay away. By most accounting, the up-front taxes, AND the hidden taxes, fees, and waste costs from the government that are embedded in goods and services, take ~54 cents of every dollar an average wage earner earns.
Imagine if we had that purchasing power back in our own hands, to do with as we saw fit. AND we were expected to survive by the consequences of that, and bear our own responsibilities, without a huge government safety net.
We might actually be able to afford more, give more charitably, and the wealthier be able to employ more people at better wages.
The problem isn't the cars. It isn't the gasoline. It isn't the automakers, really, although they are not clean in some of the matter.
The problem is the government, and how much it takes and takes, and takes, and spends foolishly, and wastes outright, then over-regulates on top of that.
But no one is saying that on the campaign trail. They all have too much to gain by continuing government's current nanny-role, and they make good money on the government's wasteful practices.
Ted Kennedy Is My Chauffer @ Apr 12th 2008 11:43AM
Amen
The Talking Hamburger @ Apr 15th 2008 1:52AM
mk, you conservative tool. Nobody's saying a damn thing about government's failures, probably because McElroy is talking about musclecars and fuel economy.
Stay on topic and leave the Limbaugh on the radio.
mk @ Apr 15th 2008 10:44AM
@Talking moronburger,
Who in your liberal stupor do you think makes the rules about fuel economy, and over regulates the automotive industry, and makes this topic a topic? The GOVERNMENT. Maybe if you could comprehend what I wrote, you would see that this is the heart of the topic.
The whole reason McElroy is talking about this is CAFE regulations, and other government over-reaching into the free market, which puts products in jeopardy, regardless of public demand.
If that over-regulation didn't exist, this topic wouldn't be a problem, and people could buy whatever damn car they want.
If the government had an actual energy policy, not just a tribute to environmentalism, fuel for those cars would be easier, as well.
It is called FREEDOM, you ignorant moron. And you are exactly why the government thinks that it knows better than the people. In your case, they are right, because you are even stupider than they are. The term "useful idiot" comes to mind. Useful to the socialist nanny-state that I oppose with every breath.
Get a clue and read the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution again. You might learn something. You've got nowhere to go but UP.