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Dezaad · 07-20-08, 11:40 AM

This is just another instance of our citizenry's diminishing ability to objectively assess any of the trade-offs that form a huge part of reality.

Americans can't even seem to understand that there is a trade-off between having low tax rates and high levels of government services. This is evidenced by our seeming willingness to listen to politicians who promise to cut taxes and increase spending when the result of such policies is for deficits to increase. This trade-off requires very little in the way of sophistication in order to be seen, yet it seems to be lost on most of us.

I have little hope that we will have the objectivity to see that we are in fact party to treaties that do obligate the State of Texas. Nor do I have hope that we will have the wit to understand that it is in our own citizen's interest for the U.S. to be party to these treaties.

I hope that we do not embarrass ourselves further with our knee-jerk backwater resistance to "furreners at the yooo eyun'.

07-20-08, 11:40 AM	#19 (permalink)
Dezaad Educator Join Date: Feb 2005 Last Online: Today 05:52 AM Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 875 Thanks: 309 Thanked 239 Times in 145 Posts Lean: Very Liberal	Re: Texas still plans to execute killer despite U.N. order This is just another instance of our citizenry's diminishing ability to objectively assess any of the trade-offs that form a huge part of reality. Americans can't even seem to understand that there is a trade-off between having low tax rates and high levels of government services. This is evidenced by our seeming willingness to listen to politicians who promise to cut taxes and increase spending when the result of such policies is for deficits to increase. This trade-off requires very little in the way of sophistication in order to be seen, yet it seems to be lost on most of us. I have little hope that we will have the objectivity to see that we are in fact party to treaties that do obligate the State of Texas. Nor do I have hope that we will have the wit to understand that it is in our own citizen's interest for the U.S. to be party to these treaties. I hope that we do not embarrass ourselves further with our knee-jerk backwater resistance to "furreners at the yooo eyun'.