Canada to Quit Kyoto

[Fairweather]

We don't have until the next generation to act on climate change. Anyway, aren't you the type who spouts his mouth off about "librul social engineering" and you want to engage in population control now?

 

Unlike your twisted version, mine isn't compulsory.

[j_b]

because we all know there is nothing compulsory about making one's economic condition the determinant of someone's ability to choose... just ask the ~50% of Americans in/near poverty level how voluntarily they make the choices they do.

[E-rock]

Hey, j_bot, what's the carbon footprint of all that hot air you generate?

[j_b]

So cute.

 

 

 

[KaskadskyjKozak]

because we all know there is nothing compulsory about making one's economic condition the determinant of someone's ability to choose... just ask the ~50% of Americans in/near poverty level how voluntarily they make the choices they do.

 

Yeah, I bet you have lots of conversations with folks in that "~50%"...

[akhalteke]

According to my random definition of what poverty means, 99.687% on the U.S. is impoverished. This relative poverty is getting out of control. Perhaps if 88.3945% of those who are "impoverished" simply used their i-Pad's to find jobs instead of reading that smarmy economist rag, they could pull themselves up by their bootstraps and ascend!

[akhalteke]

because we all know there is nothing compulsory about making one's economic condition the determinant of someone's ability to choose... just ask the ~50% of Americans in/near poverty level how voluntarily they make the choices they do.

 

The census bureau calls it 13ish%. I am sure that to you, anyone within $100,000/year of the poverty line is close enough to call "near poverty level;" at least for argument's sake.

[j_b]

Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income

Nearly half of Americans are low-income as rising expenses, unemployment shrink middle class

APBy Hope Yen, Associated Press | AP – Thu, Dec 15, 2011

 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.

 

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/census-shows-1-2-people-103940568.html