[Jabberwalker]

Markets have always been regulated, everywhere in the world. Don't like it? Move to Somalia, probably the only place where it isn't.

And since you're post just rely on empty hot air and rhetoric, without any type of facts, logical argument, or intelligent thought just goes to prove my point. Par for the course with the "wisdom of the crowd" folks. You must be Tea Party member.

I'm actually a leftie among conservatives but I firmly believe that less control of every aspect of our lives, not more will make us a happier, more productive and more creative species. I don't believe in pure capitalism but there are limits to the nannying that I will abide from a government that is supposed to work for me. Dictating the wattage of electric motors that should available to me is way beyond the beyond. I will choose them according to my requirements and according to my willingness to pay for the power.

You must be the local Marxist-Leninist candidate out there in Bugtussle.

Perhaps you would be happier in Pyongyang?

[PluggyRug]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I'm actually a leftie among conservatives but I firmly believe that less control of every aspect of our lives, not more will make us a happier, more productive and more creative species. I don't believe in pure capitalism but there are limits to the nannying that I will abide from a government that is supposed to work for me. Dictating the wattage of electric motors that should available to me is way beyond the beyond. I will choose them according to my requirements and according to my willingness to pay for the power.

You must be the local Marxist-Leninist candidate out there in Bugtussle.

Perhaps you would be happier in Pyongyang?

Don't worry Jabb', with the coming of the zombie apocalypse and the collapse of the nanny state, the wimpy lefties will be the first to lose their brains.

[PluggyRug]

....we can suck the zombies into our powerful vacuums.

[Jabberwalker]

ewwwww.

[BeaverFever]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Markets have always been regulated, everywhere in the world. Don't like it? Move to Somalia, probably the only place where it isn't.

And since you're post just rely on empty hot air and rhetoric, without any type of facts, logical argument, or intelligent thought just goes to prove my point. Par for the course with the "wisdom of the crowd" folks. You must be Tea Party member.

I'm actually a leftie among conservatives but I firmly believe that less control of every aspect of our lives, not more will make us a happier, more productive and more creative species. I don't believe in pure capitalism but there are limits to the nannying that I will abide from a government that is supposed to work for me. Dictating the wattage of electric motors that should available to me is way beyond the beyond. I will choose them according to my requirements and according to my willingness to pay for the power.

You must be the local Marxist-Leninist candidate out there in Bugtussle.

Perhaps you would be happier in Pyongyang?

How is different from 'dictating' the fuel consumption of cars?

And why do have to resort personal insults and absurd hyperbole about communisim? Why can't you have a mature discussion?

[Jabberwalker]

Why can't you have a mature discussion?

You figure that I should join the Tea Party or move to Somalia because I don't believe how powerful a vacuum cleaner I can purchase is government business?

Why can't you have a mature discussion?

i.e. "Why don't you agree with ME!? 'cause I'm RIGHT!!!"

[DrCaleb]

You guys still have carpets? Ewwww! All those chemicals and bugs living in it?

Before I went to all wood floors, my 10.5A shop vac was more than capable of lifting carpet right off the floor. It's all about efficiency, not wattage.

I still keep a shop vac around, to grab all the dust and bird seed, but the main way to clean floors? A broom! 0 Watts.

[Jabberwalker]

How is different from 'dictating' the fuel consumption of cars?

That is also not necessary. The price of fuel will cause the consumer to choose more efficient automobiles. You can even see that phenomenon at work in Canada. Quebec top-loads their gasoline selling price with an extra nickel a liter of tax over their neighbours in Canada. They have done this for years and the rational response has been that you see far more smaller, fuel efficient cars, there. the big, stinking SUVs and minivans are more rare in Quebec than in neighbouring Ontario. Civics, Corollas, Mazda 3s rule there and it is all a rational consumer response to higher fuel prices. Rather that having governments dictate fuel efficiencies, What they should do is butt out of subsidizing gasoline prices. If we paid the actual price for gasoline (as they do in Europe, the U.K.) rather than the ersatz, subsidized ones that we pay in North America (and particularly in the U.S.A. ... the land of the Chevy Suburban in every garage), most of us would be driving vehicles with 1.2 liter engines (as they do in Europe, the U.K.) Too much government meddling has created a situation where we need more government meddling to correct what a rational free market would have done, anyway.

Time will take care of this eventually as subsidized petroleum is causing all sorts of other effects, as well ... such as floating inefficient industries on this continent well past their due-by-date (which is why they are subsidized)

[BartSimpson]

Another reason to loathe the tyrants in Brussels.

[Jabberwalker]

My co-correspondent on here appears to admire that level of control.

[martin14]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

My co-correspondent on here appears to admire that level of control.

And he'll only be happy when that level of control comes to Canada.

Some people's kids.....

[Jabberwalker]

... over my dead f_cking body ...

[QBall]

raydan raydan:

Now don't get me going on light-bulbs.

[herbie]

I was gonna buy one (iRobot) years ago but I heard pet hair chokes them to death. My cat sheds furballs so big they'd stop a Smart car in its tracks.

[martin14]

herbie herbie:

I was gonna buy one (iRobot) years ago but I heard pet hair chokes them to death. My cat sheds furballs so big they'd stop a Smart car in its tracks.