There is to be a global conference in Copenhagen, Denmark this December. President Obama will be there, and asked to sign a global document to be American law if he can get Congress to pass it. The concern here is this document raises a tax from Amerian paychecks to be given to third world nations. The tax is supposed to be raised by wealthier nations as some kind of apology to impoverished nations for creating Global Warming. As if we deliberately invented global warming all by ourselves. Many of these impoverished nations have polluting agricultural industries, DDT, no national controls on pollution or sanitation, and even burn their forests, etc. Yet it is only America that is responsible for global pollution? Lots of 3rd -World Leaders drive beaten up leaded-gasoline cars without any exhaust inspections. Leaded Gasoline is what America used as a fuel before all our gas caps started to read "Un-Leaded Fuel Only". It was dirty stuff, we outlawed it to help out the planet.

First off- Global Warming, greenhouse gas, dying polar bears and the melting of polar ice caps is not the crisis the media wants you to think it is-particularly the American media.(Those crazy pavorotti!) British Lord Monckton is a premier scientist on global warming. This is his video blog-if YouTube hasn't pulled it yet-or been ordered to pull it (Those crazy pavorotti!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddQvhdCyhe4

The tax is something that American citizens will have no say against if Congress approves this bad idea. This would make "Taxation Without Representation" be a law. We'll miss having a right to say where our earned money gets spent.

Secondly, In addition to this tax, the money raised would be held and lorded over by the United Nations ONLY. I didn't know the U.N. was empowered to be a credit card company or bank for all of Planet Earth. Gee, I thought they were only a quasi-military outfit of many Alliances. I personally would rather deal with an army than another greedy bank myself. America-being supposedly the wealthiest nation on Earth, will end up paying the most amount into this global warming tax, which suits her enemies and detractors just fine, I suppose. Some of them are part of the United Nations too.

Unfortunately- and this concerns ALL nations who'll pay into this tax- this global tax run by a global bank (The U.N.) Means we'll now have upon our planet, a Mercenary Army WITH a global bank behind it! The money from that bank will only be spent the way this United Nations board and their army to enforce it, says. (Oh that crazy United Nations!).

Even if you hate all the rich folks across planet earth, don't think for one moment that this mercenary force is going to do you much good as a poor boy. You may even get drafted by them to do their dirty work. The United Nations hasn't done much good for any nation in the last 60 years, without an army behind it. Now we'll be letting them call the shots about who needs what and where, without any say in this. Rich or Poor be damned.

The United Nations was a noble idea in it's time, but just like its father, The League Of Nations, it is still run by imperfect humans you don't even know, and about ready to fall apart. Unless, that is, we all give them enough money to create Global Nuclear Weapons to completely zap out any perceived global threats. Like people who argue with them or get them mad I suppose.

But you know, those cute polar bears are hurting, and poor nations won't spend money on educating their subjects. So we absolutely need a savior with a sword like the United Nations to set the world right for regular, powerless and helpless humans.

It's good to be a global king...

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Television, the Atari's and PC are single-human pursuits. Generation X was an incredibly small generation, with little connection to others across the same group. Without companions, they substituted group playtime for solitary, therefore private, pursuits. We read a lot, also. Is over education a bad thing for society? Gen X had the last decent American school system to learn within. Before ambulance chasing and political correctness destroyed it anyway. .I suppose to anybody educated after us, we do seem to be over educated. Not my fault your schooling lacked something. We got out just in time to write books like "Idiocracy" for you to learn from. But nobody 'does' books anymore do they? That is kind of hopeless. For you. Whoops, I'm being cynical. So here's some more stereotyping for you.

I recall the 1970's as a terribly egocentric and hedonistic time. I hated polyester and bellbottoms. The word "Groovy" still rankles me. Mutton chop sideburns, psychedelic black light art, open chest silk shirts, platform heels and drug culture references are still anathema to me. I vowed to stay clear of anything similar in my life. That Aquarian-Age, collective liberal conscious, tree-hugging hippy crap, would never darken my life again. The whole generation I witnessed to the backdrop of Vietnam and Civil Rights riots on the 6 O clock news (with Walter Krondkite-"That's the way it was") made me hate a world in chaos. I -we- the X Generation, wasn't going there again.

For once, man, consider the old and proven idea -which may bring you down- that there's no free lunch. Always, an eventual price gets paid for everything. The same applies to a generation. Like AIDS, Corporate Bankruptcy and Global Warming.

cynical is a tool to measure truth against, not my preferred method of living. I can see BS easily, and I despise hopelessness. Of course it is frustrating to change people's thinking. We aren't starting race riots, dropping acid, creating new STD's or spitting on soldiers. We're working for American taxes, and hopefully spread ideas where the money is getting foolishly spent. Making us just as dangerously rebellious as any of our forbears.

alternative music -as opposed to acid rock, protest songs, rock and roll or metal. Personally, I like Jazz. So what? live at home ? Most of us never had a Leave-It-To-Beaver home, anyway. Somebody burned a bra and created Mr. Mom-from the male parents they didn't alienate altogether. Perhaps a male didn't feel very male when he was coerced into being 'sensitive?'.

unmotivated ? Is how you feel when there's only two of you to affect change, and never how I seek employment. A job is not my personal measure of success -its yours. Working fast food seems below some, because to a true egocentric hedonist, anyone who 'serves' another must be a harem slave. I do work part time. Often it feels like punishment in this society. I am employed, yet still made to feel unworthy for having a taxpaying job. Could be jealousy- I have more free time to live, without a 9 to 5 suit trapping my motion 40 hours a week. Food, clothing and shelter is not supposed to be a profit making race. It is an unalienable right. Dig where I'm coming from, man? It isn't our fault such jobs are designated 'underemployed'. A name made by people who want to take more of the tax money we earn with our personal sweat. Guess they'll just have to live with less-like most of us do already. I'd like to know who decides what a real job is supposed to be. Any employment is a job, when employees are sacrificing their personal time to create profit for somebody, while paying out taxes for everybody. My wife and I are paying them, too. Underemployment is still employment. We're not getting a tax paid free ride under mom's roof - We have our own leaky roof that we're still paying for. (Thank God). At least my Gen X wife and I can cope with less, and are still together after 24 years. We also have 3 kids who know their dad and still live with him! Yet we are called the slackers? Sez you.

Living on less stopped the depression of the 30's, which was caused by the excesses of living in the 20's. All that over education shows us certain parallels occurring today. It motivates us to intensely private plan for some unpredictable, but hopeful, future with our family. Or is that a reflection of frustrated cynicism?

It's, like, enough to blow my groovy mind, dude.

Generation X. Just like any cynical American generation before it-only different.

This is for the one or two of us 'old people' hanging around GameSpot (Heaven only knows why). American Blue Collar worker here. Another seemingly un-educated, small electronic nobody, who thinks voicing his opinion on the internet is a kind of power, let alone writing it in a game website. Well, I'll take what I can get, just like the type of folks and ideals I'm about to present here. An old aquaintance of mine recently lost a full time breadwinning job, because of idiot managers.

Bailouts.Why weren't they an issue 70 years ago? Many businesses are gone due to a lack of financial know-how, or harsh competative market. Such is the way of American capitalism. You risk becoming extinct if you can't keep alive in the financial environment. This is the nature of the capitalist engine. Studabaker, Ma Bell (Bell Telephone Company), Bank America. All now gone companies, testament to that nature. What function can a bailout serve, other than to unfavorably prolong the death of something destined to happen in the financial world? If foolish boneheads were running the place, then the bailout money is just giving them more opportunity to continue the foolishness. Where jobs are concerned, the same idea applies-employees will continue to work somewhere that proved it has no future. Just give each of those employees the bailout money-they are actually paying taxes on it afterall, and will require something to tide them over until another taxpaying job is available elsewhere. Not a secretary's fault that their boss was a financial idiot. Hardly a farmer taxpayer's fault when a big company he never heard of couldn't keep alive, either. Why is he paying for them to live on borrowed time? GMC wants a handout- What? Again? They are United States Government property now already.Government bailout money gives that government a claim on whoever takes it.Think about that and apply it to any potential future bailout. Unsettling. They are now unspoken Vassals of the State.

Nobody recalls those days when a kid had to actually try out for a sports team. If you couldn't play on the team competantly, the team wouldn't use you at all. So you learned how to improve your skills, or sat back and whined. If you don't know how to swim when you join the Navy, it would be a good idea for you to learn or you'll likely drown. If you aren't savvy in economic business, you have no business playing with an economy, or your worker's. Now theylay off employees as a result, but get to keep their company car.

What if all the United States has only work in the service industry- will that minimum wage paycheck finally curb government spending? Raising the minimum wage continuously is perhaps showing this happening?

Why don't we recall all the American citizen employees making, and therefore spending, their money overseas? Is the tax going to the USA per employee paycheck (if any) actually more than the taxes the earner would pay on daily living here in the USA? If a company moves to another nation, perhaps that company is now a citizen subject to that nation, and should lose American privledges. Especially if they ain't making money for American taxes back home. Soldiers on overseas duty are not part of this. Corporations on overseas duty are, however.(Overseas corporations aren't under orders to fire upon an enemy, or to defend against the same).Lucky non-allegiance sneaks. Another reason americans have grown to distrust businessman and politicians who make spending our money their business. Have we no say in what our taxes buy anymore? That's assinine. Keep the tax spending local to the people who are giving the money, and let the Federal government get the leftovers instead of this other way around we have now. Please recall the Federal government is ALSO a subject to we the people. They are not our uberlords. Why are we just sitting back and letting it all happen, convinced we are powerless? Puts us EXACTLY where these foolishmercenary types want us to be- unemployed and dependant.

But again, I am just some electronic nobody posting a hackney opinion, in a small website full of kids, who probably could care less. At least you weren't assailed by another game review this time. Hope this was a 'pleasant' diversion....