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September 18, 2009

NIMBY, conservative style

I read an interesting blurb in Hillsboro Argus this morning about Hybrid cars to be built in Hillsboro. It's some great news for the local economy. But I was really taken aback by the comment thread following the Argus piece...Conservatives bitching about this story.

Do you suppose their main bitch is that these vehicles won't consume enough petroleum products? Or maybe they've decided that hiring 50 to 100 Oregonians to build these vehicles would be "socialist" and therefore somehow unAmerican?

Perhaps they'd be happier with unemployed Oregonians buying old vehicles built in Japan or Canada or Mexico that burn lots of gas (and oil) and dying of preventable/curable health challenges for want of access to affordable healthcare?

It just seems to me that increasingly we see conservatives just complaining. About everything. Without any logically consistent point to any of it.

Posted by Kevin at September 18, 2009 10:11 AM