Jim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, the standard of living in the USA is driving the world up. China is > coming alive thanks to the US. We ignited Japan, Germany after the war and > it has been going since. We empower people and countries. If I buy 3 MP3 > players and 2 cars, many TVs, white toilet paper, etc I am pumping $$ in to > many jobs across the globe. Nothing to feel bad about that.
We do a lot of things right. We do a lot of things wrong. We probably do most things right, and a few wrong. The jist of it is our prosperity comes with an immoral side. I think it's immoral to build poisonous mini mountains of single use cans of bug spray and all the other utterly wasteful use once throw away crap; cover it over with sod and disguise it with a PC name like Landfill. As if the land needed filling; and filled with that? And who will clean it up; our grand kids, their kids? And that's just one small part of the problem I can easily point our collective finger at. Slavery gave the plantation owners a high standard of living, one that came with an immoral side. We are still in the end game of learning of our ignorance; and changing the way people think about slavery. The future will look back at us and judge us for what we are. And we will look like Plantation Owners of our time. Yes, it's time for this thread to end. Thank you and good day. Al Smile... it increases your face value.
