--- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > The US and other first world countries can no longer use > > > up a disproportionate amount of resources. > > > > [snip] > > > > > > You mean like oil? Such as the claim that I hear on Bill Maher's show all > > the time that the U.S. uses up 25% of the world's oil every year when they > > only represent 5% of the world's population? > > > > That kind of disproportionality? > > > > Well, Bub, prior to about 75 years ago, all that oil we always hear about > > was just sitting in the ground under places like Saudi Arabia and > > Venezuela. The natives of those countries went about their business > > oblivious to its existance. > > > > So, too, were virtually all the other peoples of the world representing the > > 95% not in the U.S. Indeed, those oceans of oil sat there, undisturbed for > > nigh on 10s of millions of years. > > > > It was almost exclusively the peoples and entrepreneurs of the western > > European-based nations, particularly the U.S., that invented the processes > > to get that oil out of the ground and the machines that use that oil. > > Without them, that oil would be sitting there right under the asses of the > > indigenous peoples of all those countries from where we get it and they > > wouldn't have blinked twice. > > > > And those people were blissfully unaware of what all that oil could do and > > didn't lift a finger to get it out. Same goes for the other 95% of the > > non-U.S. population of the world. > > > > Thusly, I don't give a flying fuck how much the people of the U.S. > > "disproportionately" use up those resources because those resources > > wouldn't even BE resources without the know-how, entrepreneurship, and > > risk-taking by said Americans. > > > > So fuck the other 95%. > > > > > "I've got mine so fuck everybody else." > > -- Shremp 'Greed is Good' McJerk > > > It's no surprise that the Shremp doesn't comprehend the concept of "We the > People." >
"We the People" ENFORCES my point. It refers to the American people, not the other 95% of the globe! Thanks for bringing it up.
