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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: SilentZ who wrote (357762)11/9/2007 5:08:01 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (4) of 1574004
 
Z, it's not just at Penn Station in Manhattan. It's all around the world. I've had beggars approach me in Paris, Florence, and Rome. (Not Germany, curiously, but that may have been a fluke.)

My mom once took a trip to the Middle East, and she said that there were many child beggars in the streets of Cairo, some who even knew how to beg for change in Korean.

I hate to sound callous, but I don't know any other way to put it. Poverty is everywhere. Even the richest people in America have but a small fraction of the resources necessary to combat it. Meanwhile no one has yet to invent the perfect society where poverty has been eliminated.

Tenchusatsu
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