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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (102209)2/26/2005 3:58:24 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) of 793900
 
Next visit Ghana. The word poor doesn't begin to describe the way your average Ghanaian lives when visualized by an American. I was expecting certain towns or sections of the country to be similar to what I've seen and read in regard to poverty. But what really struck me about the place is the breath of poverty. Every town, every city, every village, every hut, every business is akin to a picture you would see out of the great American depression.

This is no exaggeration. Before I left the states we visited a mock village in Cape Cod which simulated how the Pilgrims lived, and many of the 20 million people of Ghana live that way today! Take away the roads and the cars which pass by and you would swear you were looking at scenes out of the 1700's. An unimaginable way to live in this day and age.

I didn't even bother to haggle with the few store keepers I visited. It felt sort of inhuman or something, everything was so cheap anyway. Most of the stores in Ghana are nothing more than lemonade stands. I have a shed in the backyard in Washington which would put most of the homes in Ghana to shame.

The people did seem well fed; it didn't look like the pictures from a Christian Children's Fund commercial or U.N. camp. They were also very friendly and nice, waving at our passing buss in every town we visited.

Spent the day visiting the Kakum Rain Forest, one of the last remaining ones we were told. Our guide explained the entire western side of Ghana was once a rain forest; it's been completely stripped now. I walked across the canopy of the rain forest in nothing more than a plank wooden bridge 4 inches wide with net rails, about 100 feet above the forest.

Kofi Annan should quit talking shop at the U.N. and get to work improving the Ghanaian society. The best thing Ghana could do to help itself would be to attack the U.S. and hope we retaliate and rebuild the place. I had the desire while driving around to hire 50 bulldozers and start from the sea and work my way inland.

There is little doubt in my mind Iraq will be allot more prosperous and better off than Ghana 15 years from now.
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