[ale] [OT] Ga. Power & the "Flat Rate Plan"

[Dustin Puryear]

I don't want to delve too deeply into a political debate, but I'll admit that the neo-cons have several problems:

* They are huge spenders. Huge.
* They believe in very small taxes, regardless of how much they spend.
* Related to the above, they are okay with a large federal deficit and national debt.
* They do believe in completely unrestrained capitalism.

It's kind of the worst combination possible. Fiscally, I'm a conservative, so the neo-con mindset is very foreign to me.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of David Ritchie
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:14 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Ga. Power & the "Flat Rate Plan"

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Don't get me wrong - I'm not a neo-con by any stretch of the imagination and don't believe in "unrestrained" capitalism but rather "managed" capitalism.  The former gave us the society where we had 20 millionaires and everyone else working 16 hours a day for $1.   The economic melt down at the end of Dubya's 8 years showed us once again that "unrestrained" capitalism and "trickle down economics" are very bad ideas for most of us.   In the long run they're even bad for the people at the top though most of them are too short sighted to see it.
>

  The problem has been recently is that the neocons believe that any
regulation is bad, so there shouldn't be any regulation. I have
compared
this to playing basketball without referees.... as long as no one is keeping
score, it isn't too bad, but once money or standing start getting
measured, a refereeless game doesn't look so good.

-- Dave

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