'global Warming' Fight Targets Rich; Each Person's Emissions

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'GLOBAL WARMING' FIGHT TARGETS RICH; EACH PERSON'S EMISSIONS

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06427635.htm

Since the average Wal-Mart Greeter and every 'Burger Flipper' lives better than 80% of the people on Earth.........

Who do you suppose these "rich" are?

[Snax]

I'm unconvinced that congress is doing anything productive on the global warming front at this point.

Comparing our burger flippers to the other 80% of the world however is like telling an amputee 'at least you don't have cancer'. I won't attempt to define where to draw the line on what the cutoff is for being "rich", but I'll go out on a limb and suggest that not a single person posting on this site really qualifies as belonging to even the top 1% that owns over 90%of the wealth, much less the top 0.1% that are the real targets when it comes to issues of taxation.