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Original message:150 days 21 hours 1 minutes ago
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Do Americans Think They Deserve to Eat More?
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Reply:150 days 13 hours 37 minutes ago
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Reply:150 days 6 hours 37 minutes ago
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i can't even eat that many pickles
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Reply:150 days 6 hours 12 minutes ago
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Good question... arn't you an American... hm.. whatever.


Maybe they do... after all it IS the head country. Its also America and Japan that go to the extremes with everything... and i think that leaves its markes... American people eat too much food and Japanese people inhale to much CO2 and such...

Bigger the burden - the bigger pain becomes...
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Reply:150 days 5 hours 42 minutes ago
Member: PatchworkMan
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Bush is no genius, but it seems to me that he is being perfectly reasonable in believing that increasing demand for food in India (one of the world's most populous countries) would drive up food prices.

That said, if the problem really is demand for food, then we ought to be pointing the finger at the country with the most per capita consumption of food in the world. Oh wait, that's us...
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Reply:150 days 5 hours 28 minutes ago
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I searched for the original speech, but I couldn't find it. However, I did see many Indian sites criticizing the speech. In the original link, one critic said the average American consumes 50% more calories than the average Indian. On it's face, I'd consider the majority of Indians are Hindu. Hindu's are strict vegetarians. That explains alot right there. However, considering India is the 2nd most populous nation in the world, as it's citizens standard of living increases, so does their purchasing power, and they consume more. That's just a fact.

Bush spoke correctly. There's just many people throughout the world who, when given an opportunity, they'll look critically at the US, wherther Americans deserve it or not. Basically, Bush's statement speaks to the concern for overpopulation, so why morph this into a statement that Americans think they deserve to eat more?
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Reply:150 days 3 hours 24 minutes ago
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Wow is Bush able to do something right... MAN id never thought this would come###
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Reply:150 days 4 hours 29 minutes ago
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Reply:150 days 4 hours 8 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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Right on Chester!!! What about food production? Who produces more food America or India?
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Reply:150 days 4 hours 2 minutes ago
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Yes we consume alot, we produce alot, and we got a President who is probably the worst speaker of any President in our history.
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Reply:150 days 3 hours 40 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30
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Yea, I suppose if he left those facts unsaid, then we wouldn't be having this thread. I'm sure Americans in all 57 states would agree we have and still are one of the world's top producing breadbaskets.....well, until the government started paying farmers to grow corn for ethanol.....
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Reply:150 days 3 hours 49 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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Regardless of the president we have, we do seem to get criticized a lot. We're stupid, fat, lazy, obnoxious, mean, and self-centered, and those are some of the nicer statements. We've somehow have found the time to put down our cheeseburgers long enough to be the world's largest producer of grain though. We invented the electric guitar, and Al Gore invented the internet. This site wouldn't even exist if it weren't for Mr. Gore.
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Reply:150 days 3 hours 36 minutes ago
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Mr. Hippieway comments: "and we got a President who is probably the worst speaker of any President in our history"

I couldn't agree more. For a long time, I loved listening to him speak -- just for the hilarity of it all. Now, I just get irritated.

Problem is, the rest of the world doesn't seem to understand. They think he was actually voted into office by a majority of Americans, chosen over other candidates in a democratic process. I guess they just don't have our well-developed sense of humor, right ?


Reply:150 days 3 hours 16 minutes ago
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To imply that he was voted in by a majority of Americans would imply that he received about 150,000,001 votes. If that should be the standard for who is voted President, we would never have one.
The point is that the founding fathers and those that represent the people, who were voted in through a democratic process, approved of the system and the rules that we use for elections now. Fortunately, they also decided on a system to change those rules. They haven't been changed and we should not change them just because the candidate that an individual wished would win did not.
If you don't like the electoral system, start an interest group, build up membership, money, and political capital and get it changed. Personally, I would be against changing the electoral system because I like the idea that those who do not live in huge urban centers are not beholden to those that do.
I don't know where you live but if the system were changed to a popular vote, you may as well forget being properly represented if you live in Wyoming or Alaska or Idaho or any other less populous state. The president would be determined by what New York, California, Texas, etc. wanted so urban interests would definitely receive more attention. If you were in a rural area, you could forget it especially if the urban interest was in opposition to the rural interest.
So enough of the popular vote crap.
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