--- "Chiaviello, Anthony" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, you are no doubt correct that nothing is so simple.
>
> In grand overview, though, the right and the Republicans are
> generally
> against any programs that enlarge government, but are not averse to
> taking
> government money (witness the recent tax break and longstanding
> corporate
> subsidies-- "welfare for the rich" or "corporate welfare").
> Complying with
> environmental regulations cost corporations money, so they are
> generally
> opposed.
>
> Sure protecting endangered species in Africa might be a big
> problem: we
> can't yet protect the human species there, so it is for now a
> writeoff.
> Elephants and rhinos are rapidly disappearing, but not to feed
> people but to
> earn $$ on the black market in parts.
To try and get things back on a realistic footing here. What
precisely do you think they do with that money Tony? Use it for
toilet paper? Starting cooking fires? Making complex oragami for
amusement? You don't think they might *gasp* spend it on food?!?!?!
> There is no ESA in Africa, or have I missed something? The ESA here
> in the
> US is of course more onerous for property-owners (the richer
> segments of the
> population) than for the urban poor. So the propertied resist it;
> and they
> are generally Republican.
Unsupported rhetoric. What percentage of home owners are
Republican's Tony? What percentage of Democrats own their own homes?
Can we say, biased assertions? Sure we can.
Also Tony, I'd caution you about grouping people together based on
such tenuous associations. IMO, most of the Republican voter's are
not terribly keen on the Religious Right (RR). In fact, it seems to
me that many elected Republicans walk a tight rope between the
smaller but much more vocal and militant and conservative RR and the
larger and less militant and mainstream members of the Republican
party.
Steve
=====
"In a nutshell, he [Steve] is 100% unadulterated evil. I do not believe in a 'Satan', but this man is as close to 'the real McCoy' as they come."
--Jamey Lee West
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