The US Has The Richest "Poor" In The World

[Annie]

Answer: wells, pipes, and reverse osmosis. Give me a hard one. (Sorry- you're an old guy and can't give anyone a hard one. )

Don't go there, parenthetically.

 

[Darwins Friend]

Answer: wells, pipes, and reverse osmosis. Give me a hard one.

You’re not thinking this through. China and India don’t have pipes.

Stop and think what you’re assuming. 3 out of 5 folks on this planet don’t have fresh drinking water - much less being able to safely bathe. That’s 3.9 billion souls. If their standards are brought up to even half of what yours are now - are you childish enough to believe your standard of living won’t decrease?

It’s not ‘a hard one’ when you’re simply dismissing what I say.

 

[theHawk]

In both good and bad economic environments, the typical American poor family with children is supported by only 800 hours of work during a year--the equivalent of 16 hours of work per week. If work in each family were raised to 2,000 hours per year--the equivalent of one adult working 40 hours per week throughout the year--nearly 75 percent of poor children would be lifted out of official poverty.

As noted above, father absence is another major cause of child poverty. Nearly two-thirds of poor children reside in single-parent homes; each year, an additional 1.3 million children are born out of wedlock. If poor mothers married the fathers of their children, nearly three-quarters of the nation's impoverished youth would immediately be lifted out of poverty.

This is of course something liberals will never come to terms with, that the family unit is the solution to most of society's problems, not government hand-outs. As long as the media promotes promiscuity and homosexuality, marriage in America will erode, more single parent/broken homes will emerge, and more and more people will become depandent on the government. Masses of poor people will always demand a more socialist/communist government to give them more. And thats the difference between liberalism and conservatism, liberalism perpetuates poverty, conservatism would eleminate it.

 

[glockmail]

Don't go there, parenthetically.

Leave my parents out of this.

 

[Annie]

Leave my parents out of this.

Funny, but I did mean it.

 

[glockmail]

You’re not thinking this through. China and India don’t have pipes.

Stop and think what you’re assuming. 3 out of 5 folks on this planet don’t have fresh drinking water - much less being able to safely bathe. That’s 3.9 billion souls. If their standards are brought up to even half of what yours are now - are you childish enough to believe your standard of living won’t decrease?

It’s not ‘a hard one’ when you’re simply dismissing what I say.

I was intentionally vague as I figgered that you would be able to fill in the holes. (Oops, another penis pun!)

The fact is that there is plenty of fresh water on the planet, it just doesn't happen to be where 60% of the people choose to live: they chose wrong. Be that as it may, now they are forced to figger a way to get water from somewhere else to where they want it, or move to where the water is. That's not a natural resource problem, its a political one and shows a lack of imagination.

 

[glockmail]

Funny, but I did mean it.

So did I. They're like, 76 now. My poor daddy would have a stroke if ....

 

[Darwins Friend]

I was intentionally vague as I figgered that you would be able to fill in the holes. (Oops, another penis pun!)

The fact is that there is plenty of fresh water on the planet, it just doesn't happen to be where 60% of the people choose to live: they chose wrong. Be that as it may, now they are forced to figger a way to get water from somewhere else to where they want it, or move to where the water is. That's not a natural resource problem, its a political one and shows a lack of imagination.

Plenty of fresh water on the planet?

Where, exactly, did you come up with that assumption? Do you have any concept how much waste is produced by 6,500 million people? And is being born/living is Sub-Saharan Africa a political choice? WTF? Are we going to have an adult discussion here - or should I just drop out of this idiocy now?

Were you also intentionally stupid?

 

[glockmail]

Plenty of fresh water on the planet?

Where, exactly, did you come up with that assumption? Do you have any concept how much waste is produced by 6,500 million people? And is being born/living is Sub-Saharan Africa a political choice? WTF? Are we going to have an adult discussion here - or should I just drop out of this idiocy now?

Were you also intentionally stupid?

The United Nations says that even though the world has plenty of fresh water, the problem of access to the resource is caused by mismanagement and corruption.

http://66.135.33.24/library/environmental/aspects/water/news_item.2006-03-16.9263325060

Would you like bottled water or sweet tea with your crow?

 

[Darwins Friend]

http://66.135.33.24/library/environmental/aspects/water/news_item.2006-03-16.9263325060

Would you like bottled water or sweet tea with your crow?

That's it- see ya. If you think that a billion Chinese having flush toilets isn't going to impact your quality of life - you're an idiot, and I'm done with you.

Have a nice life.

 

[90K]

Yes the US doesn't truely understand what poor is. Yeah I saw people swimming in shit river diving for pesos and across the way seeing somebody washing cloths an on the other side some guy taking a leak. So yeah I got a little first hand knowledge or being in Somolia viewing a hell on earth that can't even be explained.
I believe a lot of organzations have gone to these far reaching places and tried to teach the local folk about new ways of farming, irrigation, safer sex practices, conservation of resources and they have failed to get a grip. Is that my fault or your fault? I don't think so and when you speak about China and India they are becoming more industrialized and modern because of the west and it's exploitations. And one other point here about a modern is Japan, they still have benjo drains that run down the street that end up in the ocean or fresh water supply. So tell me why is it still like that?

That's it- see ya. If you think that a billion Chinese having flush toilets isn't going to impact your quality of life - you're an idiot, and I'm done with you.

Have a nice life.

You two need to put on the gloves and get over with already!!!!
Both of yous have some decent stuff to say so get over it.
or I'll give you a nuggie MC; golden shell back or not I bet I flushed more salt water than you floated on!

 

[glockmail]

That's it- see ya. If you think that a billion Chinese having flush toilets isn't going to impact your quality of life - you're an idiot, and I'm done with you.

Have a nice life.

If you want to call me an idiot I will say that is an excuse for you, as you have clearly lost the argument. I have a degree in civil engineering (cum laude, sorry for the penis pun again) and a graduate education in environmental engineering, so maybe you can explain to me how those toilets in China are going to impact me.

 

[glockmail]

....
You two need to put on the gloves and get over with already!!!!....

Where have I not been civil?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I was at a casino around downtown milwaukee today and I can tell you it was obviously full of people who could not "afford" to be there, but even as they waste money, they will have a fully belly tonight.

 

[Darwins Friend]

And one other point here about a modern is Japan, they still have benjo drains that run down the street that end up in the ocean or fresh water supply. So tell me why is it still like that

Multiply by a factor of (?) for mainland China and attempt to conceive of the impact on the Pacific Basin. Imagine the satellite images in ten years - of course, I’m sure the Chinese will do the right thing.

 

[Annie]

Where have I not been civil?

 

[glockmail]

Multiply by a factor of (?) for mainland China and attempt to conceive of the impact on the Pacific Basin. Imagine the satellite images in ten years - of course, I’m sure the Chinese will do the right thing.

Where do you get the multiplication factor? The Chinese population is expected to go down, not up.

 

[glockmail]

... to this poster, or to anyone who has not insulted my wife.

 

[Annie]

... to this poster, or to anyone who has not insulted my wife.

With that said, as another poster wrote on this thread or another, you are obviously bright, why not develop the arguement a bit more and avoid the cheap shots? Kill them with facts.

 

[gonegolfin]

I was at a casino around downtown milwaukee today and I can tell you it was obviously full of people who could not "afford" to be there, but even as they waste money, they will have a fully belly tonight.

Ahhh gambling. The tax for the mathematically challenged.

Brian