What doesn’t hoover about America???

[Mike722]

Re: What doesn’t hoover about America???

Just about everything compared to other countries. I sponser two childern thru the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (cfcausa.org) in the Philippines. .

The first family had five childern. The father is a taxi driver and makes about $20 dollars/ year. The mother worked at an ink cart. reconditioning plant (all that cheap printer ink we use). Edgar died at the age of nine from a bug bite. It took them two days to get him into a hospital. I learned later, that his condition was easily treated in most developed countries, but over there it claims alot of childern. After his passing we started sponsering his younger bother victor who is now seven. We just got a Christmas card from him the other day.

We also sponser Archie. His father is a salvage man with no measurable income and the mother stays home with the kids.

When I think I have a bad day, I always think about them and remember that our problems in the USA are nothing compare to other parts of world.

 

[QC]

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You know something that really doesn't blow about this country? Our Geography. LT mentioned something similar as well. Some people in other countries scoff at the fact that less than 20% of Americans have passports. Actually the jokes on them . . . we don't need no stinkin' passports.

Within our "boundaries" we can experience every climate from Alpine to Tropical any time of the year. This is almost true of California alone, except that seasons do in fact matter here. The point is that we have such varied geography that there is no compelling reason for us to ever leave the relative safety of this beautiful country. For me that is one of the most impressive things about the US. We are extremely blessed.

 

[rodbolt]

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try venezuela, the disparity can be a shared wall.
you dont have to go 1/2 mile.
people are people everywhere, they have their share of mentally ill and terminally stupid here just like we do in the states. this country does have a semi functioning safty net for them but barely.
corruption here in VE by my observation is rampant.
while the US system is far from perfect its better than anyplace else I have seen
I hope to go to Brazil for a fishing trip next summer. I am going to Lake Guri VE this winter for some fishing.
the lake Guri area could be a poster for poverty.
if it was not for the catholic church missions many more would die.
but the people here are wonderful and the climate and landscape amazing.
my fiance says God traded a beautiful place for bad gov´t´s.
the people may not have much but they share what they have. actually kinda like the states.

 

[kenimpzoom]

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In china, I once had a young leper boy that had no legs drag over to me and try to latch on.

It was in the shadow of a nice beautiful skyscraper.

I wont forget that.

Ken

 

[QC]

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Agree on the shared wall and the boy in front of the Skyscraper. I used a half mile as sort of a neighborhood divider, but you two know first hand what I am talking about. The wealth in some of Mexico City's enclaves is staggering as is the poverty just next door.

You know one of the other things about Mexico that makes me love America is their TV and music stars. Most of the big stars have decidedly European features. Blue eyes, lighter hair. Actually you don't see any people with those features in the poor neighborhoods or with their hands out. And we are the racists . . . Hmmmmmm

 

[Boomyal]

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America is a new fresh country.Its nature is not as spoiled as Europe.
Freedoms in the western world are very much the same.

You can count on rolmops to come up with something to diminish the miracle of America. If they are all the same may he should consider moving to France. They run their country in a manner that should please him.

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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I agree that if you haven't been anywhere outside the USA, you cannot and will not ever know what you have inside the USA.

I too while in the Navy got to see many places outside our boundries. A person can be easily scared to death when he looks around and cannot see anyone of his own race or nationality. Haiti is the worse proverty stricten country that I have had the opportunity to visit. $2 a month is considered an average income for them.

Sorry to say, I have no sympathy for the whinners about how our country is. Everyone is given the opportunity to live their life how they see fit.

 

[rodbolt]

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yep, until my sister went on a missionary medical misson to Hati and I started traveling around with some here in venezuela me and my sister just thought we grew up poor in rural alabama.
however now I realize we were not poor by any means.
however even the poor here try to keep clean,learn to read and write and wsh and properly wear clothing.
the man cleaning the streets my have patched pants but 90% chance those patched pants will have ironed creases in them when he showed up for work.
street sweepers here are not like in the states, in the states its a big machine with water nozzles and brushers with a guy in an air conditioned cab, here its a group armed with brooms,machetes and bags in the sun.
labor here is fairly cheap and plentiful, modern tools and machines are rather rare.
safty concerns such as OSHA have never been heard of.
workmans comp? never heard of.
but its amazing what determined human labor can build.
something the US got away from 100 years ago,thankfully.

 

[QC]

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street sweepers here are not like in the states, in the states its a big machine with water nozzles and brushers with a guy in an air conditioned cab, here its a group armed with brooms,machetes and bags in the sun.

I've seen the same in Malaysia too. Guy on the Freeway/Motorway with his back turned to traffic and a simple straw broom. I'll never forget in Mexico the main Freeway up and over the Mountains to Toluca, a guy all by himself repainting the lines down the middle with a flippin' bucket of paint and a brush. No high vis, no cones, nobody slowing . . . :% :^

 

[rodbolt]

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yep
road safty aint real high on the priority list here .
I have seen very very large holes marked with burning tires here.
I am talking washout holes and occasionally large rocks in the road that if you hit them your vehichle and quite possibly the occupants wont survive.
and no I wont ride a bus or the metro here .

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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One sight in Haiti that I'll never forget,,,,,,women washing clothes using rocks along the stream bed. Not just a few, but I saw as many as 50 to 100. The trees and bushes made for their dryers. Women also wear skirts or dresses. You'll never see a women in pants there.

Gotta say that I was treated with great respect while there. Visited many times while I was stationed at Gitmo. Old work shoes were a highly sought after item from the sailors and marines. Sad thing is,,,,,even after almost 30 years,,,,,,it is probably still as it was.

 

[Limited-Time]

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Traveling around the Yucatan in Mexico was a real eye opener for me. Not 2 miles from the strip in Cancun people living in tin roofed shacks no sings of modern connivances like indoor plumbing, hell some of the shacks did not even have power running to them. Groups of men tearing up the pavement with sledge hammers and pick axes. Mind you it was well into the 90’s temperature wise. On top of that the farther you traveled away from the city areas the worse it got. We drove some stretches of road miles before passing a single shack in the middle of freek’n nowhere. Only sings of life were a few farm animals and some kid kicking around in the dirt. Truly sad.