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bistro777
Donuts-Is There Anything They Can't Do?
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| Re: Hmmmm Suspect..... I always ready your posts with interest, but today I must disagree with your sentiments. (Or “sediments” if you’ve been drinking red wine today.) 
C’mon – we’re talking about the Plain of Jars in Laos, an area we once bombed back into the Stone Age. You surely don't mean we should keep them there, right? If unexposed to 21st century basics like email or the Web - or, by extension, education, communication and commerce - what kind of message are we sending? And where should we draw the line - maybe stop 'em at electicity or indoor plumbing?
The Jhai Foundation is involved in much more than pedal-driven WiFi - - things such as medical supplies, medical training, children's schools and education, and sanitation in a region where Jhai claims the budget for local hospitals is $.50/person/year.
Should Laos' next generation be denied hope because they one day may compete with Americans in a global economy? W. Clement Stone wrote “Hope is the magic ingredient.” Should we take away theirs?
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sorne guy
@milwwi.ameritech | Re: Hmmmm Suspect..... most of their "next generation" lives here in the USA
there is still a standing invitation for the rest to come here, and they can have all the electricity and plumbing they can handle | |
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bistro777
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| Re: Hmmmm Suspect..... Well, there are still some left that haven’t yet “disappeared in the killing fields” or been wiped-out by chemical (gas) attacks for supporting the US during the Viet Nam War: But out of a estimated 3,000,000 prewar Hmong population less than 200,000 made it to safety.
Laos' 2003 population = 5.9 million; per capita income = $320. And Laotians ranks about 25th on the “US immigration” chart" – approx. 171k - or less than 1% of the US population.
Following the Vietnam War, certain individuals from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were paroled into the United States and have remained in an indefinite immigration status since. (Hmong and Laotian refugees who supported the US during the Viet Nam war were eligible to become citizens of the US without onerous requirements, but this eleibility expired in 2001.) Subsequently, Section 586 of Public Law 106-429, Adjustment of Status for Certain Nationals of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, provided for permanent immigration benefits to 5,000 eligible individuals from those three countries.
More than you wanted/needed to know, I’m sure, but escaping from Laos and making one’s way to the US is a bit harder than from, say, Cuba – and look how few of them make it over these days…
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Hangmn
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1 edit | A true global economy would imply wage and labor standards. Of which there are none. How can we "compete" if my job sells over seas for a dollar a day? I am not about excluding anyone, I am however about protecting my home, my family, my job and my interests. I have a responsibility to myself and my HOMELAND first. If a country's warlords squander world help to futher themselves and their people suffer because of it how is that my or any other American's problem?
Oh and if you want to see poverty up close and personal? Take a tour of the Apalachian mountains. | |
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bistro777
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| Re: Hmmmm Suspect..... quote:
A true global economy would imply wage and labor standards.
No, it doesn't - that's Utopia and ain't gonna happen. And rather than us all getting worked up over a couple of pedal-powered PCs in the hinterlands, I would suggest perusing the referenced site to see all the charitable/noble acts being performed by this organization that do not receive much publicity...and applaud them.
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Oh and if you want to see poverty up close and personal? Take a tour of the Apalachian mountains.
Just walk across the street from the White House...
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lakino
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| said by Hangmn  :
A true global economy would imply wage and labor standards. Of which there are none. How can we "compete" if my job sells over seas for a dollar a day? I am not about excluding anyone, I am however about protecting my home, my family, my job and my interests. I have a responsibility to myself and my HOMELAND first. If a country's warlords squander world help to futher themselves and their people suffer because of it how is that my or any other American's problem?
Oh and if you want to see poverty up close and personal? Take a tour of the Appalachian mountains.
Your claims are totally contradictory. You ARE indeed all about exclusion of others. You are the very definition of xenophobia! Everything you state reeks of "me, my and myself". The poorest of the poor in Appalachian would be considered a grand "warlord" in some of the real poor regions of the world. You either are a xenophobe by choice or ignorance. The former can't be helped, so let's hope it's the latter so you can eventually be enlightened.
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