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I often hear people in the USA tell me how Nike or some company like that only pays its laborers in the third a few dollars a day but in most of the third world, that is good money.
Morons like the OB would rather have the poor people in third world countries starve from unemployment than have the voluntary choice of working for a company of their choice. This is their idea of compassion.
To understand how much TOB really cares about the "poor" countries, just go through the archives and read what he has written about India.
He is just a whiny loser troll.
Peter P
2008 May 29, 9:18am
Morons like the OB would rather have the poor people in third world countries starve from unemployment than have the voluntary choice of working for a company of their choice.
So he can say that we let people in third world countries starve.
India and China have chosen to embrace the market. Just look at their miracles. :)
Peter P, I have personally lived through the transformation in India from a soc1alist country (it was added to the country's name in the 60s!) towards a more open market in the early 90s. It is still far from being a free market but I could see the difference with even those changes.
India is reaping huge rewards now for even the minimal changes it made towards the free market. Without the free market, there is no real prosperity or freedom.
Unlike many of the ranting lunatics, I have actually lived through the different systems. I have actually lived in multiple countries. Which is why I am confident that I know what I am talking about.
Which is also why I don't have to resort to tossing out random baseless droppings from my brain and avoid answering when someone asks me to backup my own assertions, unlike TOB.
Race has very little to do with it, although TOB's lonely brain cell would like to simplify things by dividing thought along those lines.
Don't pull random links out of your ass, TOB. It is a country of a billion people. It is far from perfect because, well, it is full of people and people are far from perfect.
Your opinion about India aint worth jack $hit TOB because I'll bet you've never been there and know nothing about it and in your stupid head, that somehow makes you an expert on that country? F off.
Hey, whatever happened to not answering me because you don't respect me? I guess that only applies when I ask you to backup your own baseless assertions. When you see an opportunity to puke out nonsense, you can't resist replying to people you don't respect. LOL.
You are a waste of perfectly good oxygen.
Breathtaking stupidity.
Perfect example of the mentality induced by a myopic, self-obsessed and ego-centric cultural system. Mouthing empty husksterisms as if universal platitudes and wisdom. Typically American. Understands so little of the his own society and the nature of other societies that it makes one gag. I would manage this mind probably has a college degree, too.
The richness of European culture and landscape (being a dual citizen of the EU and the US) can not be quantified in any simple set of measures. Compared to the US which is essentially, and largely, an ecological and human disaster systematically transforming what was once a magnificent world into a shithole primarily to serve profit. The absurd and deranged notion that the mindless pursuit of self-interest produces the greatest good is self-serving crap....look around you...this mentality has created a nightmare within the built environment, within society as well as within your head.
The true measure of a culture is the quality of its people and Americans, for the most part, are losers in this realm. Obsessed with power symbols and status, gizmos and trinkets, entertainments and fat intake, they generally no nothing about living since their whole existence is essential that of a caged animals obeying all the social engineering that institutions like the RAND Corporation develop on behalf of Madison Avenue. Its funny, most every European I know that visits here sees Americans as largely very conformist, superficial and uninteresting. As for freedoms, they typical laugh as it is quite clear that America is one of the least free places on earth. Its just that the poor dumb slobs are told they are free a thousand times a day from the propaganda ministries that they have come believe wage slavery, debt peonage and consumption means freedom. HaHaHaHa.... No one else does. if our ill-fated pioneer ancestors who lacked college degrees and the internet understood those things to be the antithesis of freedom. The poorest Africans, on the whole, know more about life and the nature of it that the 'best' educated slugs in this land.
What a joke. A bad one at that.
More America bashing.
How original.
I'm sure you feel very fashionable right now. Very chic. Very superior.
Peter P
2008 May 30, 12:39am
As for freedoms, they typical laugh as it is quite clear that America is one of the least free places on earth.
Much of Europe does not even cherish the freedom of speech. Americans (except the far left) tend to accept (or at least tolerate) dissident opinions. Enough said.
Peter P
2008 May 30, 12:43am
The notion that humanity can ruin our planet is arrogant at best. Earth can absolutely shrug and move on. We are tiny.
Peter P
2008 May 30, 5:41am
The fact is that the environment has been constantly changing since the beginning of time. We, as a species, must learn to adapt. There is absolutely, positively no way we can resist natural changes.
Climate change? Of course. Alert me when the climate stops changing.
Peter P
2008 May 30, 12:39pm
It is entirely possible that smug people may sponsor scientific researches.
And I thought this blog had reached its lowest point with the emergence of GC person. How mistaken I was ...
Please, leave GC alone. GC is a charming man. GC may take your woman for a ride.
Geeezus, the only time I came to read this blog after a long hiatus is this puke.
Some european states are good, although I've found that many western Europeans want to marry and come to America. Be careful. Use caution.
Tell me something about monasteries. I'm planning my exit.
monkframe
2008 Jun 15, 2:47pm
"Homes are comparatively affordable in this country
Most people are not condemned to public transportation here
Tax rate is relatively low for moderate-income families on this side of the pond"
I think Peter P. is putting us on.
A blog on which home ownership is derided as being unaffordable at this time?
Condemned to public transport when gasoline is killing the economy and many people's budgets?
Come on now, 'fess up, it's a put-on, right?
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Coming back from Europe, I have realized that America still has hope. In fact, I believe we will be in good shape if we tread carefully. We are actually quite fortunate:
Homes in Paris and London are still hopelessly expensive for most families. Even with high prices, many homes lack basic necessities such as air-conditioning or multiple bathrooms.
Why would someone choose to be stranded with rowdy youths or drunkards every day in subway trains?
Most European countries think that social engineering is the answer to all problems. I think they are absolutely wrong, unless they think frequent strikes are part of the productivity miracle. With sky-high tax rates, are than reasons (other than escalation of commitment) why productive people still want to stay there?
(Of course, there are exceptions. For example, Switzerland is still clean, efficient, and beautiful. Incidentally, it has some of the best tax policies in Europe.)
Anyway, it is nice to know that we will do fine.
- Peter P