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To: Zincman who wrote (144)	8/30/2005 10:54:37 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218887

Zinc, when you have an epidemy: weakest, poorest and older are the ones that got killed. The same applies to tragedies: catch the weakest, poorest and older. They buy the chapest land which is at most risk of flooding. They rent the less stable homes. They don't have the cash to clear the danger zone if danger appears. If the country is rich enough, government can provide a way to remove them, provide regulations on where not to build etc. But government being in the hands of politicians... I have a lot of experiency with tragedies in poor countries. Indonesia, Thailand and Africa. And I was born and Brazil and oh! I know poverty by experiencing it first hand! Let me give you an example in Curitiba where I have my base, the city has many parks along a river which serves as explansion ares for the water to collect and not gather speed and run down across the city. People have been making favelas in one of them. Look to the map maps.google.com see the airport on the right and then look left. You see the non-built area tha is being invaded now. I arrive there driving from the airport and see that as I cross the area and I imagine: The day we have a big rain this people will be caught dring the night and a few will die. The cameras will go there. The helicopters will revolve above and the work will be tragedy. No it is not a tragedy. It is plain stupidity. Same with a favelas on top of the Petrobras gas line. Exploded flattened the place. Tragedy? No! Look closer beyond the cameras' shot.

To: Zincman who wrote (144)	7/28/2008 1:44:11 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218887

consider that we spend another $1/2 billion a day on military expenditures protecting those who supply and produce the oil we import from the Persian Gulf. That's a huge subsidy for gasoline! This figure includes the price tag for the war and occupation in Iraq, which even Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the board for the Federal Reserve, admitted was all about oil. So, we Americans are racking up a bill of about $2 billion a day for our foreign oil habit. Our trade deficit with China has been described as "astronomical", but at $256 billion in 2007, this accounts for only about one third of what our foreign oil habit is currently costing us. In essence, we are filling up a freight train with American dollars every day and shipping them out of the country, mostly to people who don't give a damn about us (except for our dollars), and many of whom are openly hostile towards America. huffingtonpost.com