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Skriven 2006-08-29 19:51:00 av Robert E Starr JR (7781.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: My presidential pick
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"Wendy of NJ" <voxwoman@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 28 Aug 2006 09:06:44 -0700, gabiks@comcast.net wrote:
>
>>Vorlonagent wrote:
>>>
>>> Assumming a country of 300 million you're looking at 11% give or take. 
>>> That
>>> number seems high to me.  Do you know how "without permanent/standard
>>> housing" is defined?  I admit I could be wrong but I don't think 1 in 10
>>> people in the US are homeless.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>yikes, it seems i've smuched things together a bit (and not all that
>>accurately :^), a case where my thoughts were moving faster then my
>>fingers on the key board.
>>
>>i pinged a friend of mine, a former congressional LASI on the subject,
>>for credible places to look for information.  here's what i found:
>>
>>individuals living below the poverty line:  ~36 million
>>     (this is what i was thinking of when i wrote my original post.)
>>
>>homeless individuals (or the 'houseless' as they are now referred to,
>>'home' being where the heart is.):  ~2.3 to 3.5 million.
>>
>>     www.nlchp.org/FA_HAPIA/HomelessPersonsinAmerica.pdf
>>
>>hungry (or living with 'food insecurity') ~39 million
>>
>>     http://www.secondharvest.org/learn_about_hunger/poverty_stats.html
>>
>>so we're not bussing the homeless to the burbs just yet but the line at
>>the food pantry is definitely getting longer.
>>
>>just to bring things back to topic, it's these demographics that are
>>least likely to vote in any election, never mind a presidential one.
>>which of course explains all the talk about supporting single mothers
>>come election time.  unfortunately poverty and the enviornment haven't
>>proven to be 'big ticket' issues for either party.
>>
>>
>>> The extinction of civilization in the form of a new dark age is 
>>> possible,
>>> but unlikely to me.  (caveat: while I see ample evidence for "global
>>> warming"--the usual current bugaboo for racial self-destruction-- I am 
>>> not
>>> convinced that this warming has primarily a human cause.  My personal 
>>> jury
>>> is still out for want of solid, trustable science on the issue)
>>>
>>> The extinction of humanity is an order of magnitude harder.  People are 
>>> damn
>>> smart about surviving.
>>>
>>
>>i don't think global warming will do us in.  we are after all "damn
>>smart about surviving."
>>
>>the scene i envision is one where the human population has reached
>>critical mass and every new mouth to feed makes everyone else that much
>>hungrier.  nukes won't help us much then.  however, a good chemical
>>agent that wipes out large numbers of people while leaving the food
>>supply intacted might be just the thing.  a dark age, bye and bye.
>>
>>lg
>>
>
> Global warming could exacerbate that, by decreasing the amount of land
> that can grow food.
>


> But I'm discounting the invention of Soylent Green.

Too late.  For market reasons they had to rename them
"Chicken" McNuggets.  :)
                                                                               
            
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