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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (31227)	4/10/2003 3:05:59 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

First: It is better to be poor in Canada than in Brazil. Hence there are lots of people who would love to live in Canada. But the Brazilian middle class working for Embraer refuses a job in Bombardier in Canada, for instance. No social mobility. You can't die of hunger but you can't get out of the stratum you're born on. I bet you have -among the poor- second generation living on the dole. Second: Since I was born dirty poor -the blue coffins were for male babies and the pink ones were for the females babies- and can't tell by what I read but what I witnessed and lived through. Countries like Brazil, Philippines failed because the country is ruled by half a dozen families. Hence no renovation. Picture now a ruling elite composed of a few that have had 500 years to perfect their grip on the power and the manipulation of the country. They can't make any mistake. Their system is perfect. I discover the trick of the Brazilian society very early. First that the school system is slanted to the benefit of the rich. I voted with my feet. First got out of school since they would not take me anywhere and dropped out. Once I discovered that social security and health system was just a mirage. I voted with my feet again. I didn't want to go pay taxes in a country which I could not tell how the money would be spent. The best would be to move from country to country, avoiding as much taxes as I could so that no government expropriated the money I worked hard to get. Now that I beat the system on their own game under their own rules, I can see the system for what it really is. Not for what it is said to be or want to be perceived. Look all this BS in the constitutions and rights for this and rights for that, look very good in paper. In reality is only to keep the crowds under the impressions they are empowered. Being a survivor, I can tell a trick 10Km away and against the wind.