Again - it's hard to argue b/c I fundamentally agree with your conclusion. No bid contracts have and always will be a huge grease off for political cronies. The cruise ship stuff is absolutely unreal. The even worse one is the building of trailers (mobile homes) that won't even be ready for another year - and is only going to cause the same problems that plague housing projects to plague these places. There's soooo much wrong here it's sick - I just happen to think that it's both parties and both parties friends that are getting rich off of it.
As far as Kyoto - you have to give Bush a pass on that one though bill. 95-0 in the Senate - 95-0 means ratification was dead before it was even breathing. When Clinton signed it, he knew that it had 0 chance of passing the Senate or getting approved and was particularly uncool b/c he played the "Look, I'm a good guy, it's this awful Senate that's the problem here" card. However I'd be willing to bet big on this, if India and China were also subject to it - it'd probably have a decent chance of passing. Then again, look at Europe - although it's been ratified in most contries in the recent past, it's being phased in mighty slowwwwwly and for most of the years they were yelling about how evil we Americans were for not signing it, they hadn't done squat other than pay lip service to it.
On a brighter note though - i heard this morning on Right Wing NPR (Wall Street Jounal Mornings on XM) that California is giving out HUGE tax incentives for energy efficient homes, buildings and vehicles. I suspect this will be the beginning of a much larger trend and if govt finally puts its money where it's mouth is - then we might actually start losing some of our dependence on oil and the corrupt aholes that run oil producing countries (and the corrupt aholes here in our country that run them).
As far as Kyoto - you have to give Bush a pass on that one though bill. 95-0 in the Senate - 95-0 means ratification was dead before it was even breathing. When Clinton signed it, he knew that it had 0 chance of passing the Senate or getting approved and was particularly uncool b/c he played the "Look, I'm a good guy, it's this awful Senate that's the problem here" card. However I'd be willing to bet big on this, if India and China were also subject to it - it'd probably have a decent chance of passing. Then again, look at Europe - although it's been ratified in most contries in the recent past, it's being phased in mighty slowwwwwly and for most of the years they were yelling about how evil we Americans were for not signing it, they hadn't done squat other than pay lip service to it.
On a brighter note though - i heard this morning on Right Wing NPR (Wall Street Jounal Mornings on XM) that California is giving out HUGE tax incentives for energy efficient homes, buildings and vehicles. I suspect this will be the beginning of a much larger trend and if govt finally puts its money where it's mouth is - then we might actually start losing some of our dependence on oil and the corrupt aholes that run oil producing countries (and the corrupt aholes here in our country that run them).
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