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ORIGINAL: Arpig

Poverty & the imbalance between the haves & the have-nots. As Marxist as it sounds that is at the root of most of the world's problems.

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

True Popeye, in a way...but overpopulation wouldn't be an issue if there weren't so many desperately poor folks.That and there were poor long before the world was overpopulated. Its difficult to get somebody who is well off to strap a bomb to them sleves or to crash a plane they are on....but a poor person can be swayed in many ways...religion, ethicity, us/them...these are just tools used to motivate the poor.

The rich on the other hand justifiably fear the masses of poor, so again they can be swayed by those same tools and use them to divide the poor (divide & conquer) into tribes which can then be pitted against eachother. If everybody were well off there would be a fuck of a lot less conflict & trouble.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I grew up very poor as did many of my friends but we didn't know it at the time. We went to bed hungry and I still remember getting out of bed and my feet touching the freezing floor! But, we didn't sneak into foreign countries and push drugs and were taught to obey the rules. We were all "rail thin."
As for strapping bombs on if I were terminally ill.....
And yeah, we need to start wacking a bunch of rich people. lol
And if there's too many poor people then why should we be feeding countries like Somalia, so they can double their population in ten or fifteen years?
At some point the U.S. will not be able to produce enough food to feed all those foreign countries and that'll happen sooner rather than later due to skyrocketing birth rates in those countries.
You can't expect people in Western countries to be responsable for what happens in foreign countries. Or to pay for failure in foreign countries due to bad govt, bad management, or out of control birth rates.

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ORIGINAL: domiguy

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I grew up very poor as did many of my friends but we didn't know it at the time. We went to bed hungry and I still remember getting out of bed and my feet touching the freezing floor! But, we didn't sneak into foreign countries and push drugs and were taught to obey the rules. We were all "rail thin."
As for strapping bombs on if I were terminally ill.....
And yeah, we need to start wacking a bunch of rich people. lol
And if there's too many poor people then why should we be feeding countries like Somalia, so they can double their population in ten or fifteen years?
At some point the U.S. will not be able to produce enough food to feed all those foreign countries and that'll happen sooner rather than later due to skyrocketing birth rates in those countries.
You can't expect people in Western countries to be responsable for what happens in foreign countries. Or to pay for failure in foreign countries due to bad govt, bad management, or out of control birth rates.

I can only imagine the reason you were so poor has to be directed at the failure of your parents.  Maybe they were stupid immigrants or just lazy?  Who knows.

Enough about them.

We are responsible when "our" policies directly effect the progress of other nations.  Unlike you, we do not live in a vacuum.

So when we sell arms to other nations, or support them with monetary aid we are indirectly participating in their very actions.

Does that justify being attacked? To me no...To them maybe.

You seem unable to grasp anything but what you hear from your very questionable sources.

Do you take psych meds?

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Or to pay for failure in foreign countries due to bad govt, bad management, or out of control birth rates.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
Or to pay for failure in foreign countries due to bad govt, bad management, or out of control birth rates.

Nothing to do with politicians who've long since fucked off wrecking the economies by taking out huge loans from richer countries, then?

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Oh.....and the banning of beer sales after the 3rd quarter, 2nd period and 7th inning of most games....

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After watching tonight's edition of Panorama on the BBC, I got to wondering just what is the world's biggest problem, just what is it, and is it the same problem that has always been since daily events  first started to be recorded. The Panorama programme brought two seperate issues up, ethnicity and religion both of which I know is a constant problem worldwide even today, in our so called educated world, these two issues just do not go away. So, what is it, what do others believe is the root cause of our current world's problems, is it religion, or is it race, if neither, what in your oppinion is it and has the world's people seen it before in times past ?