Comments on: ONE’s activation (update) http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/08/15/ones-activation/ Covering the 2008 election Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: eye http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/08/15/ones-activation/#comment-35318 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:22:30 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/08/15/ones-activation/#comment-35318 It is certainly true that sending an email is not a huge difficulty, and that phone calls or physical letters are much more impressive. But it is still an action. You still have to do something. And you don't to answer a question. It is certainly true that sending an email is not a huge difficulty, and that phone calls or physical letters are much more impressive.

But it is still an action. You still have to do something. And you don’t to answer a question.

]]> by: martin seebach http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/08/15/ones-activation/#comment-35317 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:53:30 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/08/15/ones-activation/#comment-35317 Well, writing an email to Congress and the White House don't exactly have a trade-off, either? Did any of these letters contain a call for the relevant authority to end tariffs and subsidies to allow third world countries to trade freely with the US? I think polls, especially in the democratic end of the spectrum, will drop significantly if that's a premise. If we want to end world poverty, we can. But we need them to have free access to markets, both in the US and the EU. Everything else is just talking, and self-hating liberals who think they can save the world by paying higher taxes. Well, writing an email to Congress and the White House don’t exactly have a trade-off, either? Did any of these letters contain a call for the relevant authority to end tariffs and subsidies to allow third world countries to trade freely with the US? I think polls, especially in the democratic end of the spectrum, will drop significantly if that’s a premise.

If we want to end world poverty, we can. But we need them to have free access to markets, both in the US and the EU. Everything else is just talking, and self-hating liberals who think they can save the world by paying higher taxes.

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