<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:57 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":11y">We have no choice in this. We can do it now<br>
voluntarily and in an orderly fashion, or wait, and let it be horribly<br>
destructive chaos.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Ah, but that *is* a choice. And it's easy to imagine/pretend that the disaster can/will be averted somehow. And given the choice between guaranteed, voluntary hardship now and possible future mandatory hardship, most voters/legislators lack the will to choose the former.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br></div>