Re: Global Warming - a Liberal Scam?, (was Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers)

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:17:50 GMT, "David J. Allen"
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>The Europeans and Canadians choose to tax themsleves to provide cradle to
>grave care for health care.  It's a choice they make.  Good for them.
>There's a price they pay for that.  There's far less innovation and change
>in Europe than there is in the US.  They tend to stick with the status quo.
>In the US, the competitive juices among companies are often too much for
>European companies.  Airbus was subsidized for years to support foreign
>sales.  Another example is telecommunications.  Nokia has struggled with
>CDMA technology in the US because of the constant change and forward
>movement in technology here.  Europe would be happy to stay with GSM as a
>universal standard while US companies are pushing the technological
>envelope.  Is the most efficient?  Maybe not, but it's the price we pay for
>innovation and new technologies.  High energy competition is dollar driven
>(oh, how evil.... the greed!).  The European model severely dampens that
>energy.  

Enron was dollar driven as well.

>You can see the desparation to bring in outside money in Europe;
>like government subsidies, their selling of weapons systems (France,
>Germany) to ANYONE (read Saddam Hussein), willingness to accept despotism in
>exchange for lucrative trade deals (do you really think France opposed the
>war on "moral" grounds?).

Give me a break.  American companies were perfectly happy to sell to
Saddam as well and as far as "accepting despotism" who do you think
put him there in the first place and kept him there for years?
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Brandon Sommerville
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