Reply #32: I'm a proud believer of Ned Ludd's reasoning.

[westerebus]

I don't oppose technology just because it's new or modern. I oppose technology that would cause me harm. I oppose policies that diminish my ability to maintain a decent standard of living.

The two are linked. Technology and policy. Show the benefit and the cost, of the technology and the policy, so all can have their say. Or are we simple peasants, indentured and defeated?

Without some form of universal health care, we as a nation are at a disadvantage to our trading partners. We don't have to reinvent the wheel to get there either.

A trillion dollars horded in failed banks while thousand are made jobless because the of the crimes committed by the bankers. And they refuse to control the banks? Or prosecute those involved. How does that help?

No energy policy. Why the hell not?

Two wars. Eight years. How many dead?

It was jobs in Ned's day, it's jobs today.

It was empire and war back then. It's empire and war today. So what's changed?