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Problem with China is that there are now way to many males than females in their country because of their one child policy. 126 males to about 106 females. It is a foolish policy that is having horrible consequences. Population is not the problem, the lack of free markets around the world is.
Why do you leave out innovation in all this? Do you not think as demand increases oil companies will find new and better ways to get their product to the market?… and no, one article would not end this debate, of course not. There are plenty of factual and logical articles written that disprove your points. Another is here…
“A related argument — that the “easy oil” is gone and that extraction can only become more difficult and cost-ineffective — should be recognized as vague and irrelevant. Drillers in Persia a century ago certainly didn’t consider their work easy, and the mechanized, computerized industry of today is a far sight from 19th-century mule-drawn rigs.”
“Hundreds of fields that produce “easy oil” today were once thought technologically unreachable.”
Oil is finite I agree, I just don’t have the fear that some people have that we will be running out of it anytime soon causing a crazy doomsday scenario where I need to run and hide in Costa Rica to wait out the economic storm.
Why don’t you just appreciate Costa Rica for what it is? Why are there so many conspiracy theories in the minds of those who want to flee from where they live? I understand that you may not like all the rapid government growth over the last 10 years, and the growth still to come, that is reason enough to leave. But all these theories?
You sound just like the scared folks in the 70s, worried that global cooling would bring the world to it’s end and that we would be running out of oil within the next decade.
History does repeat itself. You are afraid of the same things people were afraid of back then.
Great pics! I don’t know you, but looking at your pictures, I just sat there with a big smile on my face, thinking how happy I am for this guy. Good for you.
“The misery index is an economic indicator, created by economist Arthur Okun, and found by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation create economic and social costs for a country.[1] It is often incorrectly attributed to Chicago economist Robert Barro in the 1970s, due to the Barro Misery Index that additionally includes GDP and the bank rate.[2]
During the Presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter made frequent references to the Misery Index, which by the summer of 1976 was at 13.57%. Carter stated that no man responsible for giving a country a misery index that high had a right to even ask to be President. Carter won the 1976 election. However, by 1980, when President Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the Misery Index had reached an all-time high of 21.98%. Carter lost the election to Reagan.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_index_(economics)#Misery_index_-_era_by_U.S_president
Just to set the record straight, unless wikipedia got this wrong.
I was being sarcastic Sprite. I thought your statement, “Until and unless I become a victimof crime, my behavior and low level of anxiety about crime will not change,” to be naive and absurd.
Do you really need a study on the matter, to convince you of the obvious?
Edited on Jan 02, 2009 11:19
I agree with you Sprite. Same thing goes about this recession. Until and unless I become unemployed, my behavior and low level of anxiety about a recession will not change.
Who Lotus? Who is using illegal immigration “as a political distraction to rile up the masses” to divert attention away from this financial mess that we are in?
That’s funny Lotus, I haven’t seen nor heard one politician mention illegal immigration while all this financial mess is going on. And really to compare illegal alien problem to past slavery. Are they even morally equivilant?
Amazingly we agree Maravilla, I knew it would happen sooner or later. Great rant but don’t say to much more I want this to last for awhile.
I agree ecotonecons, there is nothing “free about that.” This shouldn’t be going on at all. Our markets have shackles on them, they need to be taken off so that we can have access to more, creating more opportunity.
“Children die each day from malnutrition and disease” not from limited resources but for the lack of free markets. It’s those who get in the way of free markets that cause these problems. Robert Mugabe comes to mind. Once the bread basket of Africa now a country of corruption and starvation.
I do agree with you though that the planet is finite. But that doesn’t mean opportunity is, and I thought that is what we were talking about. By the way, to get back to the point of your post who are the “crooks” that you are refering to.
Then we better close down the patent office because all inventions that could be invented have been invented. The fact is Sprite, wealth was created in our scenario. Mana did not fall from the sky, the mana was created. It is not zero-sum or win-lose, it is called free enterprise, capitalism at its best. Everyone through the process won. If not who lost? Who ended up with zero?
