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Hey, it's so big, it's global! Our economy is just a drop in the bucket compared to the global economy. I can't control the global economy -- and if I can't control the global economy, I can't control the US economy."

I'm just so confused listening to this POS. I thought he'd been telling us how the US is only 6% of the world's population but was using 25% of the world's resources, and how sinful and irresponsible that made us. And now we're just an insignificant drop in the bucket in this enormous world economy.

Or maybe he just makes crap up to suit the moment and really has no understanding of what he's talking about.

I thought he'd been telling us how the US is only 6% of the world's population but was using 25% of the world's resources, and how sinful and irresponsible that made us.

There is some interesting statistics buried in there. We have 6% of the world's population but only 4% of the world's real estate. These means we are already doing 50% more than our share so have no more space for third world refugees.

And what's this crap about us using 25% of the world's resources? Which resources? Some resources? We produce 80% of the world's hard durham wheat, 55% of the world's corn and 75% of the world's prescription pharmaceuticals, just to name three examples which we share and sell to the world. Maybe we should get to use more than 25%?