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[DMc]

You make some really good points, squisher.

 

[Mick!]

It seems to me that letting people die after spending all that money on them, education etc. is poor economic policy, most of these people will die before their best tax paying years i.e. 30 to 65.

It's just bad business.

The opium wars in china if you've a few moments to google shows what happens when these drugs are legally distributed.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Not the same.

 

[Mick!]

Not the same, but similar.

 

[kevin bingham]

can you give me a synopsis of that Mick?

 

[FireFighterZero]

What is the lesson to be learned from the Opium Wars? Drugs are bad, m'kay?

I dont think the lesson is what happened when opium was legal, I think it was that Govts will fight and kill for any resource they want.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Better than a half million died from heart disease last year, less than 50 thousand died from overdose.

Both are preventable. Why the outrage about overdose?

 

[Levi]

There's just simply a better market for beef and cigarettes.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nah, cigs are on the way out... like the 8-track player.

 

[Levi]

Good point, good riddance.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I dont know....its a pretty good market.

100 billion spent buying, 50 billion spent fighting.

 

[FireFighterZero]

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/cheese-not-lead-heart-attack-stroke-article-1.3149892

Some good news!

 

[MasterBlaster]

If I could stop eating cheese, I would be able to wear a lot of old clothes I still have...

 

[Mick!]

can you give me a synopsis of that Mick?

Just got up Kevin and off to work, so no time, but basically apart from a story of British colonial greed, it's about the corrosive effect free access to opiates has on a society.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Uncontrolled...

 

[BlackSmith]

OPEC has asked a favor of other major producers: Please stop pumping so much and help us balance the market.

The unusual plea was issued Thursday in the cartel's closely-watched monthly report, which found that global markets are still suffering from too much supply.
The report said that balancing the market would "require the collective efforts of all oil producers" and should be done "not only for the benefit of the individual countries, but also for the general prosperity of the world economy."
OPEC said that one producer in particular is to blame: The U.S., where shale producers have continued to ramp up their drilling despite lower crude prices.

Dearest OPEC, frig you.

 

[stig]

You are bancrupting Saudi Arabia.

It is a terrible thing.

 

[woodworkingboy]

It isn't just the big oil producing OPEC countries that take the hit by cheap oil prices. Poorer countries with emerging economies that depend on oil revenue suffer as well. People in other countries have to eat too y'know.

 

[squisher]

Low oil prices hurts our tar sand oil production too. Our dirty oil is expensive to produce.

 

[gf beranek]

Funny, the price at the pump keeps going up.

 

[FireFighterZero]

The Saudis started it!

As far as other countries.......maybe they should diversify. Venezuela used to be a exporter of food......after putting all their eggs in the oil basket, they are starving.

 

[squisher]

We are diversified. But now you guys are tanking oil prices through excessive production,slapping us with softwood tariffs, coming after our dairy sector. What can we do? Boycott Wally World I guess?

 

[Steve Mack]

Looks like you guys have found out about Emu Oil as well.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3549347...-to-catch-emu-on-new-mexico-us-highway/#page1

 

[squisher]

I'm surprised it didn't get shot.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Where does this oil come from???