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To: Yousef who wrote (203064)	9/19/2004 6:40:26 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575584

They cannot believe that a poor person in the USA complains because they only have one TV or one car. No kidding. These people living in the best place on Earth to live and chronically bitching about really start to grate on one's nerves.

To: Yousef who wrote (203064)	9/20/2004 1:45:52 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1575584

As part of my work (tech consultant), I travel to many "third world" SE Asia countries. Many people I talk with want to come to the USA very badly. Yeah, this is still true, but the number of people across the world that want to come to the US "very badly" has definitely fallen during the Bush administration. And the number of people across the world that have a "negative view" of the US has increased dramatically during the Bush administration. And the increased negative view of the US definitely hurts the spread of freedom of speech, rule of law, democracy, and other US values abroad. Why doesn't George ever bring up the fact that other nations are less likely to adopt US values if they dislike the US than if they like the US?? It's great the he got rid of Saddam, but his execution stinks. Any US administration that chose to could have had Saddam removed from power. You've got to evaluate how well that goal has been accomplished when evaluating George. I'd say it seems hard to imagine doing it in a worse way than the current administration. Elroy

To: Yousef who wrote (203064)	9/20/2004 12:01:24 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575584

You're exactly right in this statement ... As part of my work (tech consultant), I travel to many "third world" SE Asia countries. Many people I talk with want to come to the USA very badly. These people live in open air wood houses (like a barn)with dirt floors, no in-door plumbing or electricity ... They cannot believe that a poor person in the USA complains because they only have one TV or one car. Of course, you don't bother to tell them about the kids who go to bed hungry in the US, or the US families who can't afford a car and must bus it to work, or who are saving to buy a tv. Oh wait, you don't know people like that. What privileged suburb do you live in, Yousef, that you manage to avoid that level of poverty? Because it sure as hell exists in these united states. But instead, you well heeled, blow hard "tech consultants" go on and on how good you have it here and the poor suckers in the third world buy into it and blow all their money to get here so that they can clean your toilets and your sewers and live in a hovel in Watts or Bedford Stuy. without a car or a tv. Such middle class ka ka!