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308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby IsThisRealLife » Thu 23 Dec 2010, 15:18:25

Just a 9.71% increase since 2000.

The consolation is that food is cheap and McDonald's will have a captive clientele for decades to come. Also, since we don't educate the masses anymore, that too is a non-existent problem. Let the poor move the south, and they'll adapt and survive to the summer and short winter. Problem solved.

I just hate this new healthcare legislation, because now the poor will have relative good access to healthcare, and gosh, they'll be with us longer. Is there anything we can do?

(Sarcasm off)

Sorry about the title mispelling. I meant 308,532,636.
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby vtsnowedin » Thu 23 Dec 2010, 21:45:32

:razz: Might I suggest that having a government bureaucracy in charge of your health-care with all the incompetence, bungling and needless delays that go with it will do more to remove you from the statistical pool then any plague you can imagine.
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby Lore » Thu 23 Dec 2010, 21:48:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', ':')razz: Might I suggest that having a government bureaucracy in charge of your health-care with all the incompetence, bungling and needless delays that go with it will do more to remove you from the statistical pool then any plague you can imagine.


Seems to work just fine in the Scandinavian countries. Why can't we do it here?
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby Cloud9 » Thu 23 Dec 2010, 21:52:21

The Scandinavian's were not in charge of Katrina. That may be the reason the rescue was a disaster.
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Thu 23 Dec 2010, 23:53:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', ':')razz: Might I suggest that having a government bureaucracy in charge of your health-care with all the incompetence, bungling and needless delays that go with it will do more to remove you from the statistical pool then any plague you can imagine.

I think a capitalist health-care system does a much better job of removing the poor.
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby IsThisRealLife » Sat 25 Dec 2010, 13:25:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', 'I') think a capitalist health-care system does a much better job of removing the poor.
And hence my dislike of this new law. Everything was on a perfect plan to exterminate the poor. (More sarcasm.)
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby paimei01 » Tue 28 Dec 2010, 14:17:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IsThisRealLife', '.') Also, since we don't educate the masses anymore, that too is a non-existent problem.


Who told you the masses were "educated" ? I am a rich oligarch. Do I need millions of smart people ? Or do I need - workers ?

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')“In our dreams ... people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk.

“We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply.

“The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Tue 28 Dec 2010, 19:21:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', ':')razz: Might I suggest that having a government bureaucracy in charge of your health-care with all the incompetence, bungling and needless delays that go with it will do more to remove you from the statistical pool then any plague you can imagine.


Seems to work just fine in the Scandinavian countries. Why can't we do it here?

Because our politicians are corrupt idiots? Because instead of getting a workable social insurance system (like say Medicare for all -- AND honestly ponying up to PAY for it) we hae a giant mess based on lies, empty promises, and misdirection that is bound to be a fiasco?

Seriously -- Medicare worked GREAT for my parents. They told you what they'd pay for, and they paid the bills promised. The problem is funding. I suspect the wealthier individuals should pay FAR more toward services rendered AND we'd need more taxes to make it work financially.

Try - just try to get a reasonable compromise like that through our corrupt political system. I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby Pretorian » Tue 28 Dec 2010, 19:34:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IsThisRealLife', 'J')ust a 9.71% increase since 2000.

The consolation is that food is cheap


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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')SA is the biggest producer both by volume and per capita. A "share" of an average American would be 1072 kg , or 2383 pounds of corn. Its enough corn to live for over 5 years and 10 weeks or so at 2000 calories a day .


http://ironrye.blogspot.com/2010/12/cor ... -mays.html

thats a 1 -year crop
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Re: 308,532.636 mouths to feed

Unread postby Serial_Worrier » Wed 29 Dec 2010, 01:29:18

If India and China can keep feeding well over a billion mouths with LESS arable land then the USA, I guess 308 million isn't that much of a big deal. Besides it's really about 330 million if you include illegals. :o :P :lol: :lol:
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