[libertarianPA]

Good point. There's a fundamental principle libs just don't seem to get:

The rich get richer because they continue to do what made them rich... ditto the poor.

[L98Fiero]

"The rich get richer because they continue to do what made them rich... ditto the poor."

Nutshell.

[posterchild]

Libs just don't seem to realize that if everyone in the world were to suddenly achieve the lifestyle the average American enjoys, the world's resources would quickly evaporate and there would be choking pollution.

The average American lifestyle may be resource intensive, but I don't believe it is more polluting than most other lifestyles around the world especially compared with 'poor' countries. Much of the 'poor' countries don't bother cleaning up their messes nor avoid them in the first place. While some resource constraints may arise, we'd have a greater pool around the world for ingenuity and incentive to find ways around those constraints.

For the rest of the article though, I'm not surprized that subsistence is trumped by cooperation (Capitalism).