Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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"Your blog is bullshit"- anonymous angry French reader.
Some British Ministers are sure that eventually Bush will give in to overwhelming world pressure to sign Kyoto. What these ministers don't understand is that for one the Senate voted 95-0 to table the measure until serious changes are made. They also don't realize that Bush and his Administration understand exactly what Kyoto is made to do. Hobble the US eceonomy to the tune of nearly $300 Billion. Another thing they don't understand is that we stand almost alone (there are only two other countries that regularly vote against UN anti-Israel resolution. I can't think of them right now. One is Central American and the other is Asian) against the weight of the world's opinion on Israel and we have not swayed one bit. When it comes to the destruction of our own economy what makes these guys think we will be any less determined?
One intersting quote:
"America will be forced to take more substantial steps than she is ready to do at present, simply by the pressure of American business itself, much of which is already recognising some of the issues and is often ahead of the US government, and by the impact of climate change on America, which will hit America just as much as everybody," the source said.
If they recognise the issue then why aren't they rushing to make the changes themselves? Why do they need the Administration to sign Kyoto so that they can go ahead and act more 'environmentally friendly'? Besides, I thought the whole goal of UN (and EU) conferences was to show how evil (Osama and Saddam are not evil but free market economy and 'big business'? No question) American businesses are.
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