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Winehole23
10-28-2012, 01:01 PM
http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/swedes-import-trash-to-power-the-nation-10428.html
LnGrrrR
10-28-2012, 01:02 PM
What a strange problem to have. I'm sure the US would be willing to sell them some garbage for a modest fee. :lol
boutons_deux
10-28-2012, 01:12 PM
India’s Plague, Trash, Drowns Its Garden City During StrikeBangalore, the capital of India’s modern economy and home to many of its high-tech workers, is drowning in its own waste. Last week, local villagers blocked the roads leading to the Mandur landfill on the city’s outskirts even as many of Bangalore’s trash haulers went on strike, saying they had not been paid in months. Some neighborhoods have not had trash pickups for nearly three weeks, and vast mounds of garbage are scattered through what is known in India as the Garden City.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/world/asia/indias-plague-trash-drowns-bangalore-its-garden-city.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
boutons_deux
10-28-2012, 01:12 PM
http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/swedes-import-trash-to-power-the-nation-10428.html

proving social democracy is a huge failure.
Wild Cobra
10-28-2012, 01:23 PM
proving social democracy is a huge failure.
So what would a boutonaucracy look like?
Winehole23
10-28-2012, 03:03 PM
What a strange problem to have. I'm sure the US would be willing to sell them some garbage for a modest fee. :lolNorway pays Sweden to take it from them, then landfills the toxic waste.
LnGrrrR
10-28-2012, 03:32 PM
Norway pays Sweden to take it from them, then landfills the toxic waste.

Pftt that just shows that Norway doesn't know how to negotiate. They blinked first! :lol
DMC
10-28-2012, 05:36 PM
What would it cost to hook Mexico to a tow rope and drag it there?
Agloco
10-28-2012, 11:03 PM
What would it cost to hook Mexico to a tow rope and drag it there?

:lmao
Winehole23
10-29-2012, 02:44 AM
What would it cost to hook Mexico to a tow rope and drag it there?No need. Mexico comes here willingly.

Or used to, back in the good old days.
DMC
10-29-2012, 06:13 PM
No need. Mexico comes here willingly.

Or used to, back in the good old days.

So are you in Sweden?
Winehole23
10-30-2012, 02:38 AM
Nope. Read the link. You should try it sometime.
Winehole23
10-30-2012, 02:41 AM
I'm Texas born and bred. Still live here.
Winehole23
10-30-2012, 02:44 AM
Mexicans are the least of our problems. Hell, they might even be a solution. Who's gonna save our lazy decadent asses?
Winehole23
10-30-2012, 03:14 AM
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DMC
10-30-2012, 05:32 PM
I asked what it would take to drag Mexico to Sweden (where they are importing the waste). What does that have to do with Mexicans coming to Texas?