IS THE ECONOMY SO BAD WE ARENT ALLOWED TO EAT IT?
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Now, now.  Just because Hitler and Bush used the same political manipulations (gotta love those gullible christians) and had wars doesn't make them one and the same.  Where's the overt racial and ethnocentric prejudice?  See?  He's more like a reformed Hitler, minus the economic prosperity.  Besides, Bush has far more elements of a robber barron of 100 years ago except instead of having people die over making railroads, they are getting shot for oil profits.  To Bush's credit, there has been far fewer causualties over in Iraq despite it being called a "war" than Carnegie produced in steel mills...  We're just bitter that we're not ripping off the American people ourselves though.  I mean, look at Michael Moore.  He got on the oil gravy train and now how much do you hear from him?  It's like a gasoline lined pacifier!\n\nAs for evil people?  Hey, there are fools supporting both politcial parties in this country.  It's open to all!  As Dinesh D'Sousa (former Regan advisor) said, there are thinking patriots and stupid patriots (aka dogmatic morons).  If it wasn't for DD coming in to talk for our local College Republicans, I might have never known for sure that the public rhetoric didn't really match the real Republican rationales for action.  I suspect that one day a lot of the "religious right" will get their clue on... and God help the republocrats when it happens!  (I'll be cheering on the christians that day, btw)\n\nOooh, wait, there's a real debate issue here?  Thank you fifiday1 for bringing that up!  Remember good old NAFTA?  You know, the one Bush senior's admin wrote up and good old Billybob Clinton signed into law.  Yeah, you know.  The one where your jobs go south along with all our actual trade policy.  Yep.  That one.  I actually studied it and an ungodly amount of the congressional record surrounding it.  It was BIPARTISAN, baby, oh yeah!  AND they knew it would be BAD FOR YOU!  Aren't our republicrats great!  They sent your wages to China, baby!  It's LONG gone.  You're worried about IMMIGRANTS?  Whatever.  We've gone GLOBAL and that means competiting for jobs with people in China, India, and Indonesia.  American Southwest?  That's just the tiny tip of the iceberg.  You'll be fighting that while Bush pushes CAFTA, which will just speed up your (ok, our) losses even more!  Gotta love the guy.  Tells you that he's against abortion with one head while the other head pressures people to ship their jobs to Timbuktu.\n\nPretzeldunce?  I'd bet Andrew Carnegie would call that sort of lining your pocket at other people's expense "nothing short of brilliant!"  It's every man for himself, baby, oh, yeah.  What a wonderful world we live in!\n\n\nPS. The questioner is making fun of a GAFF - another Bush slip of the tongue.  Political opponents try to make him look "stupid" because he has a speech impediment.  Everyone makes little typos and errors from time to time, but there is a crew of pundits waiting like vultures to jump on each and every one in every presidency.  Really, I like Eye_of_Sauron joke questions better...
616169
We have too much food. Well fed people are not well motivated. When it took all day just to put a meal on the table, people worked their a$$es off.
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I know that a lot of snacks are already outlawed in schools, and with the way Government seems to be going, I wouldn't completely rule it out, but I'm figuring the snack food industry makes a lot of revenue, revenue that the government would not get their share of if they did outlaw snack foods. Therefore I would say that even though the possibility is there, the probability is not.
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No, but YOU should be tried for Spreading National Stupidity!     You know what, MOST people couldn't even run a Fast Food business, or even a freaking Taco Stand, Let alone a COUNTRY!!!    So if your Expecting some Perfect Way for the country to be ran, well you need to wake up and smell the coffee, Lifes Not Perfect and Neither is the System.  GET SMART, RUN FOR OFFICE YOURSELF, or Shut Up.
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Not sure but it is unsanitary.
11899
Because it would be thoroughly unfair to force people to pay for things they can't afford.\n\nGet real.  "Allow" connotes freedom, which is all a government should give you.  And that same "allow" is what permits anyone to make whatever they want out of themselves, purchase whatever they want.  You'd have a gripe if you could phrase the question "How can the US FORBID people from buying food or health insurance," but you can't.
197840
The economy generally doesn't include tax revenue. The reason it's bad is that it takes the tax burden off of the 5% who control 95% of the money, and puts it squarely on the middle class.
145906
Some of the things (since 2000) can't be repaired.When you destroy and sell off the environment, that's it.Our economy,(I don't care what the g.o.p. say) was ahead in the ninties by at least 400 billion.Now the debt we have buried ourselves, and whored ourselves to China and Japan, the u.k. even Canada has a stake in us,is going to take I'm afraid our children to dig out of this mess.Not to mention womens rights,our basic freedoms and everything else they have slapped us in the face with.I wish a third party could win, but the odds of that are about as good as bush really being a christian!
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Do you mean if there is any change in the world hunger/starvation situation?  We shouldn't do anything in the event of change .... WE SHOULD **BE** THE CHANGE!  The United States is blessed beyond belief with resources, and we should share them with others... not just other countries but with our own people as well.   There are so many poor people right here in the United States.  Now I am certainly not suggesting that we only take care of "our own"...but rather that we should help ourselves AND those in other countries.  Are you in the U.S.?  If so then I'm sure that you are aware of the enormous amount of food that rots in the dumpsters.  It's sickening.  There is so much that we could do, but yet we don't do it because our focus is on earning a buck and making sure that the rich here remain as exactly that- RICH.  Major reform is needed.  Generosity is needed.
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It sure as hell isn't the supply economics that is in place now. Just look at the deficet and debt to see any success if false success. We are at war and alot of people are out of work. Don't make any sense until you see the policys of George Bush.
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Yes, I think the government is obligated to regulate, and intervene, in a market economy. \n\nMarket economics concentrate wealth (the rich get richer while the poor get poorer), sabotage human values (if people value something, then it must be worth money, and if it isn't worth money, then it must have no human value), punish altruism and cooperation (which are anti-competitive), encourage deception and information hiding (to create competitive advantage), wreck the environment (it's rarely economic to use resources in a sustainable or non-polluting manner), and exploit consumers (who only exist to give businesses their money).\n\nSo far, unregulated market economies have, consistently, turned into economic, social, and environmental disasters. Just look at Britain and America in the late 19th century, or Indochina and Latin America in the 1990s. The former Soviet countries aren't looking too good right now, either, and I'm a little worried about the USA's current economic policies.
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That is called inflation.  Many countries have been throughout that and coming out of it is hard.  But we are still not at the worst level of it-depression.  So lets hope that our leaders do not let it slide to there.  Hang in there-for now if we reduce to only necessary needs and purchases we can still survive.  And those needs are a lot less then what typical americans had to live by.  I have been through depression back in my birth country-when a fruit yogurt was a luxury and we could get one only on payday as a reward for something.
467232
No, science cannot feed the world, we are already overpopulated and technology can only take us so far. There will always be starving countries unfortunately. All foods that we eat have been modified, and yes, despite scares genetically modified foods are generally ok.
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Now you've got me scared and for good reason too.\nWhat can we the consumer do about this anyway?\nIt's all up to us the consumer as our own government doesn't seem to give a hoot about what we eat or put on our skin or what we feed our beloved pets either.\nThis is as shameful as it can get and to think that no one cares to do anything about any of this is even more scary.\nI for one appreciate you bringing this to my attention now.\nWouldn't it be a wonderful world if our own government would research and define what's safe and not safe for us to eat and use?\nI would have never guessed that I had eaten road kill or worse or given my dog or cat that and worse. Everything listed is totally disgusting by any ones standards but unfortunately not our own governments, shame on them for not protecting us as we have trusted them to do so, shame on them!!!!\nAgain I thank you for bring this to my attention.
456352
yes its unfair..... its also unfair that i have to breathe your air.. seocondhand that is................   why will we tax stuff you wont buy... you dont eat vegetables..............
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Of course, we need money to survive in this world. Unless of course we learn to be self-sufficient. Grow our own food, etc.\n    Today, people are earthly minded, or I should say carnal minded, and selfish, that is the fruit of our parents buying whatever we wanted and and a lack of discipline. At Christmas, people spend hundreds of dollars on gifts and some can't afford to pay their bills.A few days of enjoyment , but to know spiritual avail. They are caught up in the things of this world. Work, Work, Work and spend, spend, spend for what? to buy gifts,easter rabbits, halloween candy,and to spoil the children. What happened to the days of teaching children to work , and to love their families and to seek God.\n   With all the money, all the food, and Americans have more cancer, than ever. Simple, natural , basic foods, would be just as sufficient and less deadly. The days of growing your own food. Living out of the garden. May be more time consuming, but more healthy. Money can buy a lot of things , but not love, spiritual happiness, and good health. It may help, but it is not sufficient.
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Homeless people.\n\nThe United States is suppose to be so rich right? Then why cant we afford to get these people a place to live food in their stomaches, children a place to learn good things not how to be poor and run around dirty because their parents couldnt afford them.