Environmentalist Laments Introduction of Electricity

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 8/26/02 | Marc Morano

[mn12]

Smith called the developing world's poverty "relative" and explained "you can't really have poverty unless you have wealthy people on the scene."

Amazing. So if we all live in mud huts without food, everybody's doing great. Usually commies don't say they want the populace to live in poverty-stricken misery quite so overtly.

[aruanan]

Environmentalist Laments Introduction of Electricity

Perhaps such folks could be encouraged to help rid the world of electricity by soaking up as much of it as their individual bodies can take. Thus they could become electron sinks for environmental peace.

[A_perfect_lady]

"The idea that people are poor doesn't mean that they are not living good lives," Smith said.

He's right. Let's end all foreign aid. After all, the poor are probably perfectly happy without it.

[lavaroise]

He's probably a speech writer for Comissar Daschle already.

LOLOLOLOL!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

" Why should we?"

A good point indeed. And one more question should be asked: Since all the money the tax-payers of the world have sent in the past, has wound up in the vaults of the dictators who rule those poor countries-is there enough money on earth, assuming that we send it all, for even a smidgen to trickle down to the ones we desire to help?