Daffodil Lane

As President of a Republic, a part of his job is to propose directions to pursue. It is the job of our congress to "advise and either consent or denie" proposed ideas.

Use of closed military bases sounds better than proposing to use Gibson Island as a site for "notbees"; i.e., "not in my back yard" are numerous and these bases have been in back yards for years.

Local governments have been absorbing taxes and building facilities to atract industry for years.

Sorry, but I have a higher standard for the ideas that come from the man that holds the Oval Office. I expect the ideas to have actually been thought out and seriously considered. I expect them to meet a standard of consideration that is good for everyone in the country and not a handful of corporate sponsors.

NIMBY is the acronym. The problem is that the pollution from an oil refinery is enough justification for the locals to resist the placement of such plants. No one would have to have their children or themselves exposed to toxic byproducts or dangerous explosions that come from having one of these plants around. I know you don't care because your a Republican and for as long as it's happening to profit you, you could care less. But it's not good to increase production, it's important to decrease demand.

Our president is not a dictator like you might be if you were elected. As you do not have time to prepare graphs he may not feel he has time to create expensive studies for all of his ideas as there are many in Washington who more qualified for these tasks.

If you dislike pollution as much as you say, then quit burning fossil fuels. We have some Mininites who do not use fossil fuelds but use horses that provide fertilizer for one's garden.

Amusing, when you can't beat the message attack the messenger. Standard Republican tactic. Maybe I can make this simpler for you. One ordinary person can't make a difference alone (But it's cute that people teach their kids that). We live in something called a society (Well except for some of you crazy Republicans, but that's a topic for another day). Societies are collections of people who share a common set of rules called laws (I know you Republicans don't believe in the rule of law, but that's how it's suppose to work). Laws are written by politicians (well lobbyists right now but you see where I'm going with this). The current politicians in this country that control every branch of the government are called Republicans (that's you LP). The Republicans have been in charge of the spending section of Congress for the last 12 years. Any failure in the last 12 years is the responsibility of the Republican party. You get the picture of where I'm going with this hopefully. There is no way to pretend that your President and his party aren't responsible for this crisis. As for telling me to do something about it, as a private citizen I've done all I can to offset Republican irresponsible behavior. But I have to say you made me smile when you admitted that the Republicans never provide anything like evidence to support their radical anti-America ideology beliefs that you support some feverishly. See you've just proven yourself to be a dishonest agent in this debate. You know that your wrong and yet you continue to attack me in hopes that you can somehow bring harm or damage to my point of view. Which is how a Republican does "debate" issues. They seek to undermine the opponents points, they don't have any ideas of their own, only their hate of your ideas. I have no desire to abandon the modern world because I know it won't make things better. But will continue to lobby for a good faith effort by our government to try and save us all, even you godless Republicans from yourselves.

Mandrake, you are hopeless.

It may not be possible to retrieve you from the murky ideology you find yourself when you do see the state you are in.

You have made be realize that you feel your rhetoric is your life whatever the issues.

I will not post again until you bring forward facts and not rhetoric.

Well that's good news for me. Because if there was a chance that there was hope for me from your point of view I would be greatly disappointed in myself. As for my murky ideology, not sure what this issue is about it that makes it seem murky. I see right and wrong, and I decide to do the right thing. It's pretty straight forward stuff. As for the state that I'm in it's always baffled me to figure out what's so bad about the state that I'm in. I have a good life and a happy family. Oh the horror of my terrible life. And the horror of all my missed opportunities to take advance and bring harm to my fellow man. Sorry I just don't see it happening to me. I am a fundamentally good person, despite my best efforts, that's the kind of person that I am. I will live with the terrible burden for as long as I can.

It's interesting that you suggest that rhetoric is my life. You may not realize it, but that was a compliment. Rhetoric is the study of effective communication of ideas. If your saying it's my life, then my message must be having some sort of effect on you or you fear that it's having some sort of effect on others. So thanks for the compliment, even though I know you didn't intend it that way.

Posting is ultimately always up to you. But given that your definition of a fact as something that supports your ideology and we don't share the same ideology, then you will be hard pressed to ever find anything on here that you would be willing to refer to as a "fact". It doesn't make anything that I say any less factual, just means what I say won't be filter with your corrupt vision of the world. If that disappoints you, such is life.