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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Real vs Govt Energy costs (Re: Roads and Taxes)
- Message-ID: <90634@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:48:38 GMT
- References: <51868@seismo.CSS.GOV> <=b#s4vc@dixie.com> <30539@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.190333.10528@ttinews.tti.com> <1993Jan24.132908@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
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- In <1993Jan24.132908@aifh.ed.ac.uk> jamesh@aifh.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton) writes:
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- |over the last decade. They've all but massacred our coal industry,
- |manufacturing industry, steel etc... Unemployment went through the roof in
- |the early eighties and never quite recovered, and indeed is on it's way up
- |again. We are in the deepest and longest recession since the thirties
- |depression and homelessness seems to be a permanent feature of our cities.
- |All this after thirteen years of Thatcher/Reagan style conservatism.
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- Thatcher removed the subsidies that the coal and steel industries had
- become addicted to and they collapsed.
- It is not the removing of subsidies that is at fault, but the laxy
- incompetent management that had grown dependent on those subsidies.
- --
- Mob rule isn't any prettier merely because the mob calls itself a government
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Wilson's theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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