--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings > <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > snip > > > > > > There are 6 billion people in the world. about 5 billion of > them > > > are below the U.S. defined poverty line. > > > > ROFL - a lot of those are in the US. US has a lot of poverty. It > is > > rampant. > > > Being below the U.S. poverty line does NOT equal poverty...it is a > relative measurement. > > There is zero poverty in the U.S. > > > > > > > > > > > > I would bet you that if given the chance virtually 90% of those > 5 > > > billion and about 50% of the other 1 billion would, indeed, come > to > > > the U.S. if given the chance.>> > > > > > > You have never travelled much have you. Most people are not > interested. > > > > > > I've travelled enough to have seen real poverty and to know that no > such poverty exists in the U.S. > > And it is an extreme insult to the real poor of the world to claim > that our fat, bloated "poor" with their TVs, MacDonald's 5,000 > calories-a-day diets, and designer sneakers are poor. >
Bullshit. I have never seen poverty in Europe like there is in the US. You are living in cloud cuckoo land. There are many millions of people in the US that have poverty level jobs and if they die on the job due to an accident, then the company just gets another replacement and sends the body home. Then they get a replacment and do not train him/her, then he gets injured or killed and then they get another free replacement person. You could not get away with this on the same level in India....except if you are a big US faceless company there (Bopal). And you should see what your oil companies do in Nigeria (Europeans also ). Shempgurk you have your head in the sand just like the almost extinct rednecked osterich. OffWorld To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
