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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: ScubaGuy on April 20, 2008, 01:32:24 PM
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This has got to be a mole. I can't wait to see if he gets any response.
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fiziwig (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-20-08 01:57 PM
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Do your part to make this a fair and just world.
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Edited on Sun Apr-20-08 02:02 PM by fiziwig
Americans amount to 5% of the world's population, but consume 25% of the world's resources. No matter how you spin it that means we Americans use five times more than our share of the resources. Since resource use is directly proportional to purchasing power, that implies we Americans have five times more than our fair share of purchasing power.
If we are ever going to see a fair and just world, a world without starvation and endless war, we all need to learn to be satisfied with our fair share, and nothing more. Do your part. Go to your employer tomorrow and demand an 80% salary cut. Anything less is admitting that you don't really care about fairness or justice. Anything less is telling the world that you don't have any moral qualms about exploiting the other 95% of the world for your personal benefit.
Show the world that you really DO care. Prove that you're not just an empty wind bag when it comes to equality and fairness. Demand that 80% salary cut now!
NOTE: (An acceptable alternative is to keep your salary, but give 80% of your income to a registered international charity organization.)
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Show the world that you really DO care. Prove that you're not just an empty wind bag when it comes to equality and fairness. Demand that 80% salary cut now!
You first. :rotf:
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Seconded!
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Wasn't Fiziwig the happy old capitalist from A Christmas Carol?
I don't know if there are any peer reviewed studies but it is my personal belief that I cannot starve myself enough to feed the hungry.
Also, America gives back a lot to the world. Also, not aware of any peer reviewed studies but it seems like we give back way more than we take.
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I brought this up during that time the primitives were insisting that those who support the war for the liberation of Iraq enlist and go over there.
A good idea, I thought, but one has to be fair about such things.
For more than 40 years, the United States has been engaged in an endless war, a quagmire, no light at the end of the tunnel, the war on poverty.
And the primitives of course support the war on poverty.
Well, I would find some ways and means of getting over to Iraq to fight for their freedom (which after all ensures my own freedom), if the primitives would enlist in the war on poverty.
Figures are very ambiguous and hazy and uncertain, but it appears the per-capita wealth, world-wide, is about circa $167 per person.
American figures would be higher, of course, but the primitives like to think of themselves as "global" citizens, so I'm using the global per-capita wealth, not the higher American one.
And so as to fight this war on poverty, every primitive should then sell off all that he owns in excess of $167--all of his automobiles, his real-estate, his electronic toys, the clothes in his closet, the furniture, the food in the cupboards, the pharmaceuticals liict and illicit, in excess of $167, and give that excess to the poor of the world.
Fair's fair.
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Still no responses. Apparently the "crisis" of poverty and homelessness can take care of itself until the Eeevul Rich can be compelled by gubmint to take care of it themselves. :whatever:
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I'd be happy to see the DUmmies open up their extra floor space and spare keys to the "homeless".
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I'd be happy to see the DUmmies open up their extra floor space and spare keys to the "homeless".
Except, theoretically at least, aren't most of the DUmmies "the homeless?"