We believe that all people have a right to food, housing, education, medical care, a living wage job and support in times of hardship.
This sounds good on the surface, except that it requires others to provide it, and those policies end up hurting more than they help.
We advocate the use of "true cost pricing", which reflects the total cost of production based on its impact on the ecosystem.
This is crap, as there's not way to measure it, and trying to do so will again cause more problems than it will fix.
In general, platform statements always sound better than the actual policies they support as a result of them. For example, saying "we want more environmental energy" is nice, but then they fight against nuclear power, which is the best alternative to coal and oil at the moment. They often want to shut down what we're doing now whether or not there's an equivalent alternative, which will end up killing people if they actually could get any of it passed.
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Date: 30/5/10 22:17 (UTC)This sounds good on the surface, except that it requires others to provide it, and those policies end up hurting more than they help.
This is crap, as there's not way to measure it, and trying to do so will again cause more problems than it will fix.
In general, platform statements always sound better than the actual policies they support as a result of them. For example, saying "we want more environmental energy" is nice, but then they fight against nuclear power, which is the best alternative to coal and oil at the moment. They often want to shut down what we're doing now whether or not there's an equivalent alternative, which will end up killing people if they actually could get any of it passed.