Opening of 2nd Presidential Debate 1992

Town hall meeting style.

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[theenforcer1977]

@DEConnoisseur Jesse Ventura/Ross Perot 2012

[sandythebear]

@CutOff16 Hopefully the GOP can get rid of the neocons as well so ron paul can run.

[TurboFuss1]

I miss when all the candidates were white men.

[GeckoDude2010]

How Does Flintlock and Oliver North Fit in these Debates & Kano?

GI Joe-Actual Face on Trial-Mortal Kombat Fatality!

[PatriotInChief]

Note the Masonic handshakes at the beginning

[JoeKopsick4Congress]

@maphitha1

Please stop accusing me of lying. If anything, I'm mistaken.

I'm not saying that incentives are being given to pollute.

What I'm referring to is how companies can buy carbon emissions permits from other companies. That's the "trade" part of "cap and trade", as far as I can tell.

Al Gore bought carbon permits. Now, when companies want to emit more carbon, they have to find someone willing to sell permits. Meaning that Al Gore stands to make money when others desire to pollute.

[maphitha1]

@JoeKopsick4Congress It's an incentive program aimed at reducing pollution, not bigging the right to pollute. The authoritative body in question sets a "cap" on the amount of pollutants allowed to be emitted and gives incentives to those who do outstanding work in reducing pollutants they produce. There isn't an incentive given to those who pay to pollute, what you said is a lie.

[JoeKopsick4Congress]

@maphitha1

If it sounds like I'm lying, it's that I don't understand what Cap and Trade is. Maybe you could help explain it.

[maphitha1]

@JoeKopsick4Congress Selling the right to pollute isn't what Cap and Trade is. Stop lying.

[JoeKopsick4Congress]

@maphitha1

I'm not sure if I like the idea of selling the right to pollute to the highest bidder.

Why should the right to pollute be a "good"?

Why should pollution be treated as something that has some utility which is desirable?

What is desirable about pollution?

[maphitha1]

@JoeKopsick4Congress And who cares if Emanuel, Obama, and Gore stand to make money off Cap and Trade? If the cause is right, then we should applaud them on investing in it. Just because somebody you don't like supports an idea, doesn't make the idea bad. And if the Republicans would realize that and work with Obama in those areas then the country wouldn't be where it is now. Not to say the Dems are much better, pansies if you ask me, but that doesn't make it any less true.

[maphitha1]

@JoeKopsick4Congress Pick your poison. Stagnation>Great Depression and that's where we going with Bush policies. And the corporate and private tax cuts that provided no revenue in return are a big part of why the nation is in such hard economic times since the only capital investment was in foreign countries. Bush's policies on taxing were ridiculous and promised jobs that failed to produce a net gain.