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Originally Posted by dogzilla
Sometimes the blame does belong with the poor, specifically when they make poor choices about finances. While not true in all cases, if your poor, do you really need to buy that nice car, or the big screen TV, or other goodies that you put on your credit card?
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That's right, poor people are poor because they spend all their money on new cars, big screen TV, and all sorts of crap. If they just stopped all that frivolous spending they'd have no problems making ends meet on 30k or less per year.
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Originally Posted by CandleInTheDark
It would seem that some of you think that questioning the methods is an invalid form of comment. Nothing could be further from the the truth. Any form of empirical study can and should have it's methods probed for faults.
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Maybe because 'questioning the methods' is the standard attack by the right on scientific research. By the time the questions are answered it doesn't matter anymore because the news cycle has already moved passed the issue. This has been the MO on the assault against global warming.