"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news:1102526081.76c09fa93e16580ea89698e8db2b5611@t eranews...


I've found that travel abroad has given me an appreciation for other
peoples and their cultures

....and coverted you to a Socialist.





and more insight into the realities of the world. These realities often are
very different from what our government wants us to believe. As an example,
it wasn't until I was working in Vietnam that I fully realized what a
colossal fraud our government was perpetrating on us.

But that's because you're a Socialist...and the idea of collective
ownership that Communism was promoting was very near to your favored model
of government.

But you learn a lot of good, too. I spent some time in Egypt with
villagers who had nothing, and who were learning to build their own small
homes, start their own small businesses, and improve their community's
sanitary coditions.

Hehehe. And decades later, they're *still* learning (unsuccessfully) about
improving sanitary conditions.

All these people wanted was a slightly
better life for themselves and their children. I found similar aspirations
among the folks I met in El Salvador and Bangladesh.

Statistically, those folks, are probably dead by now...thanks in no part to
their countries' backwards-assed cultures, leading to poor living
conditions, and terrible health care.