Re: McCain just sold his soul to the oil companies

On Jun 18 2008 6:13 PM, da pickle wrote:

"JerseyRudy"

My original point was that there is "no free lunch." We need politicians
who are willing to tell people that, and who are willing to support
policies that might cause some individuals economic pain for a greater
good. Telling the American people that we can drill our way out of this
problem, or that we should suspend the gas tax in order to temporarily
lower gas prices a little, is exactly the wrong approach (similar to
fighting a war while at the same time lowering taxes).

I did not see that your original post was pointed toward there is "no free
lunch."

This was the end of my original post in this thread. You must have missed
it.

"It is typical political pandering and it is based on the assumption that
the American people are not smart enough to hear the painful truth about
what is needed to solve the problem. "

"painful truth" = "no free lunch"




We agree that people may be caused economic pain ... however, we diverge
that we have to support policies that "cause" the economic pain.

I agree that we cannot drill our way out of high gasoline prices, but we can
increase the supply of domestic oil production and that is one of the many
ways that we can move away from so much dependence on foreign oil.

We should not suspend the gas tax ... but we should not increase it either.

I need not make some silly collateral reference to expensive entitlement
programs to discuss oil and gasoline prices or energy policy.

What "silly collateral references" are you referring to? and what do
"expensive entitlement programs" have to do with the policy proposals
being discussed in this thread?

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