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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (28612)	2/9/2003 8:45:21 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<I do not think the freedom you speak of will be that easily obtainable for those in whose countries the bombs are about to start falling...> As a US citizen I am thinking of looking elsewhere for a second citizenship incase things get ugly here. The US makes that very difficult, I don't know if I have enough Irish blood in me to take that route... and despite Canadian parents > 6 month residency makes that tough. DAK

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (28612)	2/10/2003 4:18:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

<those "have-nots" are probably in a dead end situation with few choices. You on the other hand the job you described was a temporary "transitionary" position. > Indeed that's true. In 1973, at D McL Wallace on Maurice Road in Penrose, Auckland, I sat on some sheets of steel to eat my sandwiches at lunchtime one day and made a mental note to never forget the circumstances and scene and working conditions of the guys who were NOT in transitionary circumstances. Too many silver spoon muckity mucks take such people for granted and lack respect for them. No wonder there are revolutions now and then. That wasn't the only time I was aware of the lives of people who didn't have the opportunities I could take, just one in particular I wanted to particularly remember. Lower still on the totem pole were the people at Auckland Sheltered Workshops for the mentally and physically handicapped where I worked as a driver and supervisor. We had a lot of fun there. People mistakenly think that fun and happiness come with intellect, wealth etc. Sure, it makes life a lot easier to have brains and money and they are good things to have, [the more the merrier], but they are not always pre-requisites for happiness [though at times they are when things are going wrong, which is when brains and money can save the day]. I'd say the workers at the Sheltered Workships were as happy as a good portion of those working for pretty good pay in BP Oil International at the top of the totem pole. The Sheltered Workshop people were have-almost-nothing people. Some of them were so lacking in mental capacity that they had no apparent awareness of their circumstances. It sure is a varied world! Nowhere has a monopoly on happiness. Wandering around India, they seem to be as happy as people in the USA. The difference in wealth doesn't seem to create an equal difference in happiness. Mqurice