Which means that it's just the 'same ol' shit'.

You'd think all those 'oh so PC'  'reformers' just might want to really change things, no?
Instead they just substitute what *they* want to "subsidize, etc, etc..." & act just the same as 'previous guys' that they rail so much about.

Same old song, just a few new riffs...

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On Wed, 4/20/16, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Truck Stops Rather Than Air/Seaports
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 9:39 AM

 > On
 Apr 19, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 >
 > 
 Paraphrased from memory: "I've never seen anybody
 actually *use* those f***ink monstrosities, as there's
 maybe two or three trucks out there that run on it. But the
 Feds says it's the comin' thing, so everybody has to
 put one in or get fined. Just another reason I'm a
 Libertarian."

 Sez the
 guy whose profession pretty much only exists because of the
 (Federally funded, Federally mandated, and supported with
 both federal and sate subsidies) Interstate system. (Those
 gas taxes you all complain about don’t begin to cover
 maintenance and expansion costs for the system)

 ROFL.

 And the REASON the feds have that rule?

 Lobbying by the
 flush-with-cash oil extraction industry which has been
 fracking gas out of the ground in gargantuan quantities,
 thanks to Federal laws regarding mining and other resource
 extraction, making extracting resources from public lands
 extraordinarily cheap and profitable. So they have a LOT of
 natural gas to sell.

 The
 Mining Act of 1876 means that 'We the people' pretty
 much give ‘They the profiteers’ the stuff they take out
 of the ground for free, plus they get to declare bankruptcy
 when they’re done and leave it to 'We the
 people'  to clean up the mess they leave behind.

 It is to Nelson Laugh.
 Bitterly bitterly Nelson Laugh.

 oBTrav, since the entire economic system of the
 OTU is pretty much based on this model (fer gawdsakes the
 ONLY thing covered by ‘law level’ is just how big of a
 gun you can carry in public) I’d expect it to translate
 right on over, so there are probably a crapton of worlds
 that are essentially mined-out toxic dumps. After all when
 corporations can have military divisions, the concept of
 rule of law was gone a long long time ago; Ol’ Cleon 1
 built his empire on economic warfare and genocide, and the
 3I took it’s cue from that. This is what ‘Rule of Man’
 entails.

 The member worlds
 have nominal autonomy, but since the 3I controls the
 ‘space between the worlds’ any place that gets out of
 line can be Shock Doctrine’d into submission tout
 suite.

 --
 Bruce Johnson
 University of
 Arizona
 College of Pharmacy
 Information Technology Group

 Institutions do not have
 opinions, merely customs

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