debate among Republicans):
"If you believe in "climate change," you presumably believe in massive
government intervention into the economy and our lives"
At the risk of sounding childish: nuh-uh!
Jeezus, people, it's comments like this that make many folks think of
libertarians as idiots and shills for big oil. There's something
incredibly unreflective about a presumed libertarian who assumes that
if you think there's a problem, you think government must be the
solution.
I beleive smoking can cause cancer - does that mean that to Ostrowski,
I 'presumably believe' that we need monster cigarette taxes to fund
massive government campaigns directed (ostensibly and clumsily) at
ending smoking? NO!
Now in another post, he does say that he thinks *Republican
candidates* who believe in man-made climate change presumably favor
intervention - and of course I will grant him that. Almost anyone
running for president can be assumed to be in favor of government
'doing something'. But there are people who see problems and *don't*
automatically expect government to solve them. Folks like James do
them a disservice when they make the assumption that they do.
