Man Made Global Warming

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

It's basically a matter of how bad someone wants to be wealthy. Many inspiring stories out there, people get great ideas and work hard to fulfill the dream...

Tell that to someone in Greece at the moment, or one of the 50% of Spanish youth who find themselves without jobs, or the thousands in Ireland who have had to emigrate.

Originally Posted by SlipBall

the mess you speak of is result of very large governments and the entitlement payouts for all those retirees

The current mess is the result of the collapse of the financial system in 2008.

I already was of this opinion but this thread has just reinforced it. It seems to me that the right-wing belief system is just a massive self-reinforcing pattern of denial. When reality (from global warming to crashed economies) threatens or invalidates their belief systems they retreat into ever more frantic denial and distortion, ending in a mad dash for bogeymen to pin the blame on. We've seem the full gamut in threads on this very forum over the last few weeks - everything from those mad corrupted scientists through the (usual suspect) Marxists and socialists, athiests, even homosexuals a few weeks back. Everything is fair game if it allows them to sustain their cosy cocoon of denial.

Anyway, I've said I wouldn't get involved in this and I have. This one's for you Andy.

I'm off now before the Klan arrive.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Tell that to someone in Greece at the moment, or one of the 50% of Spanish youth who find themselves without jobs, or the thousands in Ireland who have had to emigrate.
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They need to make there own work/income till a better opportunity comes along, again hard work...

[MD_Titus]

that's a wonderfully simplistic view.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

that's a wonderfully simplistic view.

That's how I did it since age 14 till today, only a couple of employers along the way.

[MD_Titus]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

That's how I did it since age 14 till today, only a couple of employers along the way.

like i said, wonderfully simplistic.

so if everyone did that, or became entrepreneurs in whatever field, do you not think there would be failures due to the sheer level of competition? where would start up investment come from? what about comparative levels of education, socio-economic backgrounds, sheer ability... i mean seriously, you expect 50% of spanish youth to just go out there and make money from... what? thin air? who is going to spend money on their enterprise if no one has money?

is this that american dream thing?

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

like i said, wonderfully simplistic.

so if everyone did that, or became entrepreneurs in whatever field, do you not think there would be failures due to the sheer level of competition? where would start up investment come from? what about comparative levels of education, socio-economic backgrounds, sheer ability... i mean seriously, you expect 50% of spanish youth to just go out there and make money from... what? thin air? who is going to spend money on their enterprise if no one has money?

is this that american dream thing?

I know the situation is dire for much of the world's youth. I didn't mean to imply there is a one size fits all cure.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by kendo65

We've seem the full gamut in threads on this very forum over the last few weeks - everything from those mad corrupted scientists through the (usual suspect) Marxists and socialists, athiests, even homosexuals a few weeks back. Everything is fair game if it allows them to sustain their cosy cocoon of denial.

Personally I would choose to blame the vegetarians.

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Personally I would choose to blame the vegetarians.

My God, you're right! Hitler was a veggy. So was Gandhi and L. Ron Hubbard!!

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

My God, you're right! Hitler was a veggy. So was Gandhi and L. Ron Hubbard!!

Yep and so was Charles Darwin and Bob Dylan and Ozzie Osborne. Atheist Hippy splitters the lot of them.