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Old 10-24-2018, 01:28 PM   #3430 (permalink)
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how so

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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
You said it could be implimented with the stroke of a pen. How so? Suddenly dictate all shopping malls to close and cars to be banned? Who would enforce this? And to what extreme?
It would be a declaration of war against load,as was done in WW-I and WW-II.
The US has a lot of redundant population which doesn't really contribute anything productive to the nation,only a net degrading effect.
Under government edict (we're talking extreme,BIG GOVERMENT,super-onerous regulation,oversight,and punishment),these zero-people's energy consumption would be severely curtailed.
Unless you can think up a warm,fuzzy,politically-correct way forward,which doesn't ruffles people's delicate constitutions.
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