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   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013 17:27:35 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
      
   > Zepp wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:41:52 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> False dichotomy.  Next week I'm going to the Philippines where people   
   >>> make ten dollars a day if they went to college, three to five dollars   
   >>> a day if they didn't, and some of the very unfortunately live in   
   >>> (literal,   
   >>> not allegorical) garbage dumps where the hazard is being buried alive   
   >>> in a trashslide while trying to salvage something to sell.  There are   
   >>> people there whose lives have been made immeasurably better by the   
   >>> existence of myself and my husband.   In that context, I have not the   
   >>> slightest twinge of guilt when I hear that someone in the United   
   >>> States has run out their 99 weeks of unemployment and now must dial   
   >>> back on the supersized orders of fries and give up one or two of their   
   >>> premium cable channels.  Seriously.   
   >>   
   >> So for all it's wealth, America should strive for no better than the   
   >> garbage dumps outside Manila?   
   >   
   > I have no idea where that question came from.   The tenor of my   
   > statement is that I have seen what real poverty is, and I'm not wringing   
   > my hands over what passes for poor in America, which has the richest   
   > poor people in the world.  You don't see Sally Struther making   
   > commercial in Des Moines, Missa Eddie Fodder.   
      
   Yeah, I got your gist.  As long as America is better than the very worst,   
   you figure that'll do.  They're Americans.  This is no fucking   
   democracy.  They don't deserve better than what people in the Philippines   
   get.   
      
   Right?   
      
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