Economic Prosperity is more important than Environmental Protection

I thought this was a place for intellectual discussion. I will choose to remain calm, and discuss in the utmost manner. Before I dealt into refuting your points and presenting my arguments furthermore, I will like to point these out. As much as you got the mouth to talk, you haven't yet presented any reason as to why Environmental Protection is more important than Economic Prosperity, but rather slide away from the true argument of this debate. You have not yet understand the concept of economic prosperity. It's not just about business, its about how you going to feed your family, how you going to commute, where you going to sleep, where you going to go to school, where are going to get your treatment. What's environmental protection, if our people got no food to eat? What's environmental protection, if our people are dying from preventable diseases? What's environmental protection, when coal power plants are providing electricity for our homes so we and our family could live and sleep in peace? God has endow us with natural resources, to use them as a means to better the of our people. Now I know that some businesses take advantage of the environment to the extent that is unbearable, but I rather have them tap into them to provide a better standards of living. The environment depends on us for it survival, as we depend on it for its survival. It's not given to us to just be kept. Go live in a third world country for a while and see if you like it. See if environment protection is any good when people are dying early, kids are very skinny, and many people are not in school. Before I start, I will like to defend our doctors on the front-line that you have chosen to attack now. 8 years ago, I broke my leg while playing under a tree. For months I suffer in anguish, and I knew that I will never be the same again. I will not be able to pursue my dream of being a soccer player, I will not be able to play outside with my brothers. I will never again be able to walk normal. My right leg, the broken one, was as skinny as a stick. For months, I slept in the hospital and I was given crutches to support me. Today, I can happily say, that I can stand on my own, even though I will no longer pursue my soccer dream, instead a lawyer. My story is not the only. My little brother, when he was a baby, mistakenly picked up a pen and put it in his mouth. Who saved him? You should know. I'm not sure if you have heard the stories of people being saved by doctors from many issues, ranging from bullet wounds, to stabbing, from car accident, to the common cold. With economic prosperity, comes the advancement of health. So Economic is not just money and business people, its the "well-being of a nation and its people." Economic Prosperity takes into account the education, health, transportation, security, defense, etc, of a nation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay. Now you state that "the money the government use is not even theirs, its the citizens." But wait, you have been attacking business, since this debate. Guess who give you that job, in order for you to even get that money you call yours? Business. But wait, who made the business people to choose to invest here? The government. But wait, who give the business individual a loan or grant so they can start their business, contribute to the economy, and help our people rise from the ashes of poverty. The government. So no, its not really your money. It's the money the government made, that they give to the business, so they can provide with jobs, in return provide you with money for the work you done. Look at it this way, it is essentially the government money, their trying to get back. My opponent has stated that the United States is not the richest nation, because its 2,000,000,000,000 in debt. I will like to argue that the United States is the richest nation on earth, despite the fact he has pointed out the wrongs of our government. The United States alone is worth 15t, the only nation that comes close to that, isn't even really that close, which is China: 8 trillion. Higher GDP means to improvements in health, education, transportation, security, and defense. We have more universities compares to the world. Our transportation sector is among the envy of the world. We build bridges over bridges, our people have cars, our people are able to travel the world because of our aviation industry. We are a nation of pioneers, we went to the moon and created the Peace Corp. Our three main cities shows the economic power of our nation: California, Texas, and New York. California alone is worth more than Russia, and Brazil. And it alone comes close to Japan, UK, Germany, France, and Italy. This speaks volume to economic prosperity. Just for you to know we give more money to the United Nations. We help many nations like no other nations have done, and we have the USAID, MCC, Power Africa Initiative, and many other programs we fund to help the world, still we could build our own nation. I understand that we're shipping jobs overseas and I do not like that. But its the hard regulation we're putting on business such as environment regulations, that are causing them to do that. Machines and robots replacing human roles, I do not like it. But that's the advancement of technology, it moves and power the world. That's why I believe we should put programs in place to help who loss their jobs due to this. But your argument that it destroys the entire economy is wrong. As we have seen what technology as done, look at our iphones, our medical tech, and the technologies we're using in the classroom. Human limitation prevents us from doing some things machines can do. Considering all you have to see about the government, I will let you believe what you want to believe. Thank you for the comment: "you're just another "american dream" patriotic idiot that supports "land of idiocy; home of the graves." I'm glad to know that I'm a idiot. Don't judge a book by its cover. That's essentially what you're doing, with my stand on this issue. I'm not saying I value business over family. This is a totally different debate. You're undermining this debate, and slipping away. "Family" does not have to do with environment. I very much value family to my dear heart, that's why I believe in economic prosperity so they would be able to eat and not go to bed hungry at night, so they would be able to go to school and not be uneducated, so technologies to make their life better. You cannot tell me you value family, but than prevent the path that could lead to a better standard of living for them. Just like you, I know jobs and labor in this country through and through. If you want to have a separate debate about that, start it and invite me. To argue me, is to argue the truth, as well. I speak truth, and I have always preach truth, which gets me in trouble. So I do not run away from the truth. If you want me to talk about the truth about labor in this country I will. To counter the small things that I'm not going to rebuttal against but say a few things..."a river dam" I guess you do not want electricity. I guess you do not want the business to be power so you could work. You know the machines, or the computer you use to do your jobs, they are depended on electricity. But I guess you do not want to work. I'm not preaching ego, and I do not have an ego, I was simply trying to have an intellectual discussion about economic prosperity and environmental protection. But you fail at that. Wars? I do not support it, but it is sometimes necessary, when innocence lives are being loss, we need to intervene, not that we have to start it ourselves. But again that's a different debate. I know the real world buddy. I know it. I educate myself on world event. This world is too small to not know what's going on.