Mesch, I agree in general, but MANY Americans make less money today.adjusted for inflation, than they did 30 years ago .
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Thanks eric, I always thought that was a Buddhist saying .Live and learn . |
The fact that 20. 000 children a day starve to death might move the heart of some to give 75,000 to Save the Child fund and get by with a 10K speaker ..
Have to have a heart first though or you will think children in poorer counties.many of which have been made poor by richer countries , have no Entitlement to live .
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Same reasons you would if you had a bigger heart and made less than 2 bucks a day.
You can’t buy a condom when you last penny is not really enough to fed you family.
You could feed them once upon a time but in 2008 fiasco Wall Street looked around for other money besides stock market , bought up commodity firms and drove up rice so high the 2 bucks a day folks could’d afford it . Child deaths from that are estimated at 65 million .Thank you 401k, aka Wall St slush fund .
What is the ONLY thing you can do that makes you feel good if only for a while and costs nothing.
They love children .
On the richest country, yes we are as a COUNTRY, bottom 50% make less that in several dozen countries . If you were paying attention at all you’d know all this . |
When you are in depths of complete utter poverty and degradation you and reason are total strangers . In their shoes you, and I, would do the same they do .
Majority of poor are poor because of western colonial sins in the first place
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Funny then we lost the Vietnam war and those in Iraq and Afganistan as well.
Best we could do in Korea was a tie which to me is a loss.
Civil War is still in progress , Confederates seem to be winning at this time , |
Do tell, I was an Infantryman in Vietnam, we lost because the Generals and
other officers were concerned only with their next promotion so they refused to discipline troops and were all around incompetent .
Somebody had to end their party.
Every officer had the same line, "not much of a war but only one we have " .ha, ha , ha ha .
They did help me one way, I was a poor guy, never thought of college.
I became sure of one thing, if these idiots could do it, I damn sure could and I did .Summa Cum Laude
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I hear you , I'm in same boat . Fact remain's I could have saved some children's lives if I just listened to Radio and had given the money to them .
I've lived in Japan, Germany and France and agree with your niece .
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Doubt it, sounds like a religious statement to me . |
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Some in their right mind do . |
IMO Montreal is greatest city in North America and Ottawa is not far behind . I owned a tree farm not far from either in Vermont and spent a lot of time with some Canadian friends
Most important thing I learned there, to me at least, was that Canadians are patriotic, Americans Nationalist .
BIG difference .
jetter, no knock on you at all, some people are more self-centered than others , takes all kinds . |
Been through Woodstock many times, not a skier so I don’t notice that much. Woodstock is nice but like many Vermont towns a tourist trap .
I owned a 300 acre tree-farm just north of Richford 3 miles from Canadian
border, about 45 miles to Montreal .
Most professional soldiers think Army is just a job and we got paid .
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Great news today for those who served !
Our NEW head of the VA has just proposed to close the 1100 VA out-patient clinics to save the government 25 millions dollars . Less than trips to Florida for a certain clan in last 4 months.
You TRULY can not make this stuff up !!!!! |
Since Stalin and Mao did in about 80 million, most would say Caesar isn’t quite in their league.
Nor is it a matter of what economic path or ideology you adhere to .
Stalin was a communist, Hitler the most anti-communist person in history.
It’s the fact you are a Dictator , being able to play God brings out the devil in anyone .
From a theological view, killing one child brings you into the same league .
Hiroshima . |
As an historian I can tell you that the history wrote by the winners is usually
only read by people in the "winners" countries . |
I did not say he gets a pass, I said "from a theological view " .
A well known prophet said "Love thy Enemy " .
He didn’t say it to help your enemy , but to tell you that in the long run, aka infinity, what your enemy does is on him, what you do is on you .
Same reasoning behind another well known saying of his, "turn the other cheek " .
Most of the 30-40 thousand kids that died in Hiroshima never were in the Army .
Not to mention every honest historian knows A-bomb was dropped to show Russia we had one after they defeated Hitler and started to invade Japan .
Japan had peace feelers out at the time .
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onhighway61.
THE reason most post are named after Confederate Generals is because
West Point Generals named the posts and made the point that being a West Pointer tops everything including being a traitor to your country.
Civil war is still in process . |
Reading any post is totally optional . |
In terms of results, sometimes there is and sometimes there isn’t.
In any case , in a mass society the marketers are far more important
then the market .
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I've seen many classical musicians who have good systems .
In Germany its the norm .
Also have seen jazz musicians who did as well, but only known a few .
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