Oh please say it aint so.
Jun. 29th, 2003 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usernamenumberI knew I shouldn't have checked "everyone should plant a tree!"...
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I guess I don't have anything against the Greens. If/when Lizbeth and I go back to New Zealand, if we end up staying I'll probably register as a Green. The Green party there actually enjoys a great deal of popularity and power (at least with the people I talked to). But New Zealand is a very small country and is still largely agrarian. The greens have no doubt played a large role in that and I am immensely grateful to them for it.
Nonetheless, in a country as large and industrialized as the US, with companies moving jobs overseas to countries without all those pesky emmissions and pay standards, I can't help but think that the exacerbation of such problems that the Greens would cause with well-meaning but expensive penalties against businesses would far outweigh the good they would (try to) do... at least in the short run.
Put it this way: I think that, if by some miracle they got someone like Nader into office, the Greens would do what we as a country probably ought to do, but also might ruin us economically in the process.
Whatever. I've never had much luck with these 'assess your political standpoint' tests. We took one in our government class in high school and mine came back split 50/50 between Republican and Peace and Freedom (basically, socialist)... WTF?
Either way, I really ought to do more reading before I talk about this stuff. =:\ <sigh>
The Green Party, You support equality and mother
earth.
Want to know what political party you really are?
brought to you by Quizilla
I guess I don't have anything against the Greens. If/when Lizbeth and I go back to New Zealand, if we end up staying I'll probably register as a Green. The Green party there actually enjoys a great deal of popularity and power (at least with the people I talked to). But New Zealand is a very small country and is still largely agrarian. The greens have no doubt played a large role in that and I am immensely grateful to them for it.
Nonetheless, in a country as large and industrialized as the US, with companies moving jobs overseas to countries without all those pesky emmissions and pay standards, I can't help but think that the exacerbation of such problems that the Greens would cause with well-meaning but expensive penalties against businesses would far outweigh the good they would (try to) do... at least in the short run.
Put it this way: I think that, if by some miracle they got someone like Nader into office, the Greens would do what we as a country probably ought to do, but also might ruin us economically in the process.
Whatever. I've never had much luck with these 'assess your political standpoint' tests. We took one in our government class in high school and mine came back split 50/50 between Republican and Peace and Freedom (basically, socialist)... WTF?
Either way, I really ought to do more reading before I talk about this stuff. =:\ <sigh>
