The U.S. represents 4.8% of world population and consumes 25% of all energy and 30% of all materials on earth. To maintain our growth and standard of living, we must not only continue to use the resources at the present level, we must expand our consumption exponentially. You do the math.
I should also throw in the fact that the resources aren’t ours. We buy them from some of those other 95.2% of people on earth that I was talking about. To make matters worse, they don’t like us.
If China were using all of the oil in the world and you were pulling the rickshaw, you wouldn’t like them either.
Let’s look at this from a different perspective. If the Chinese alone were to consume at the present rate of Americans, there would not be sufficient global resources to supply China. That leaves the rest of the world with nada and a shortage in China.
Well the nerve of those gluttonous Chinese. After all, we have the dang rail roads all built and they can go live on fish and rice. What’s next for gosh sakes; hamburgers?
Don’t let all of this worry you. We have the greatest minds in the world at work trying to solve our problems. Only yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out that Barrack Obama is a black man. Barrack Obama after some consideration, said that as far back as he can recall, he always has been. John McCain said that NAFTA and the WTO are beneficial agreements and that the U.S. will become an intellectual nation.
So you see, we have leaders that are all over this thing. In the mean time, stay tuned to King of Simple News, I’m pointing out plan “B” in the rare possibility that Mr. Obama turns out not to be a black man and that Mr. McCain is as dumb as he appears.
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