Here is another example where the Federal Government will abuse its power if we allow it: under the currently proposed Healthcare bill everyone will be REQUIRED to purchase health insurance.
If one makes a reasonable assumption that health insurance is just a product or service like any other, where in the Constitution is it written that the Federal Government can compel its citizens to purchase any product simply as a function of being a citizen???

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My contention is that under current administration the rush to expand the scope, size and power of the Federal Government has accelerated significantly. It is readily apparent in administration's agenda, whether it is related to environment, economy, healthcare.
This tendency to expand the Federal Government has been ongoing non-stop - for the last 20 years, by both Republican and Democrat administration.

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Ira, I've written my note before I got a chance to read your other comment. You have to understand that while I am writing I can't refresh the screen to see what you may have as the latest post. If that offends you - sorry. You don't have to reply.

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You're asking "what do you suggest?"
For you I recommend a book by Mark Levin (radio host here in New York on 770, WABC - 6:00-9:00 pm) "Liberty and Tyranny". The first post in this forum was copied from that book.
A great read for anyone who likes to think for themselves and wants to understand where as a country we come from, where we are right now and what needs to be done to keep it the greatest country in the world.

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for all my conservative friends - strongly recommend a chapter on petropolitics and geopolitics in Thomas Friedman's book "Hot, flat, and crowded".
Even if he is half right, we are for some very unpleasant surprises - and very, very soon...
it is an excellent, researched and sobering book

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what credentials does Thomas Friedman have in climate science?
if you trully want to hear the other arguments, you have to read those who are scientists..not politicized journalists...read the link I provided earlier..it has the proposed solutions/actions we should take, but not as radical or/and expensive..

If this is not a classical example of "brainwashed" I don' know what is.......
You:-D

I wish I could chat today, but have to go now -off to Tahoe to ski in the snow ( !) and enjoy the really nice climate change over there.
All you brainwashed Global Warmers -relax. The end is not near. Do not trust Goracle. ;-)
(v)

On a more serious note -because there is nothing funny about corruption in the science - read this article from WSJ:
How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus.
And based on this fudged data, the UN bureaucrats are trying to redistribute mostly American money to the third world countries ruled by despots and tyrants.:-S
(BTW, one of the corrupted "scientists " is from Boulder,Co).
********tinyurl.com/ykvrdou

Which climate change data is fudged? Please reference a scientific paper, not a FOX news/WSJ article.