[Nuke'm Glowing]

"Oh, if only life were so simple as that. You say gov't should have no say in the public's purchasing decisions where oil consumption is concerned. Do you believe that's the way it should be with every other resource having national security implications, as well? "

Since you're the true DUtard, I thought I would go back to your original quote. The problem with this world is that there are too many do-gooders and fools who take a black and white issue and make it into a rainbow like the queers and Frisco parade around. The world is not like that. The resources either have to be managed by the government (communism) or the market (capitalism). If you can not handle that basic concept of the way of the world, go back to DU and play with the children. This is a serious matter. We are discussing the potential of government regulation and control of economic resources. Even during WWII when resources were declared to be strategic resources (note that that was a "declared" war) the capitalist system hummed along producing and managing the resources because the government told them what they needed. The rationing program and restrictions on consumer goods was not debated because there was a true threat to national security and the existence of the USA. Now until our borders are militarized (like 1942), a war is declared (like 1941) and the resources openly declared to be rationed for the need of our survival (hello, I don't think I've heard W say that yet, have you?) then let the market do it's job. Until then, shut up, go back to hugging your tree, or burning your draft card or whatever it is you hippie-commie-lib types do.

[newgeezer]

The resources either have to be managed by the government (communism) or the market (capitalism).

See? There you go again. Black and white. You are such a simpleton, a stubbornly naive idealist.

Here's some breaking news for you: The US gov't restricts access to a lot of our resources. Thus, according to your rules, you must believe we live in a communist country.

If you can not handle that basic concept of the way of the world, go back to DU and play with the children.

I can do the same thing right here. You are the FR version of the DU children. Your brand of logic is precisely what I expect I'd find there. See "The 25 Rules of Disinformation." Surely you can find something new there.

let the market do it's job

Yeah, as long as we let today's market do its job -- that is, as long as we artificially restrict our own capacity to produce -- we keep funding radical Islam, and 9/11 will happen sooner. Then maybe you'll be happy when we find ourselves in the war that you insist we must have in order to recognize any resources as being "strategic."

Flame on, FRetard. In your little world, there are exactly two kinds of people: those who think exactly as you do, and hippie-commie-libs.

Until then, shut up, go back to hugging your tree, or burning your draft card or whatever it is you hippie-commie-lib types do.

Since you insist on telling me where to go and what to do, why don't you stick your head back where your brain got starved for oxygen in the first place. Coming out for air doesn't seem to be helping you see the reality of the situation, and you're just making a fool of yourself.