On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:08:08 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 1:00:47 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:43:55 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 10:26:38 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:41:13 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 3:06:39 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> >> >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:02:18 -0800, Taxed and Spent
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >On 1/10/2018 10:54 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> >> >> >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:35:19 -0800 (PST), Steve La Wertz
>> >> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>> Bruce wrote:
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:03:57 -0800, Taxed and Spent
>> >> >> >>>> > wrote:
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>>> On 1/9/2018 12:24 PM, graham wrote:
>> >> >> >>>>>> On 2018-01-09 12:02 PM, Casa estilo antiguo wrote:
>> >> >> >>>>>>> On 1/9/2018 11:44 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>>>>>>> For a regularly repeating $40 split meal subsidy?
>> >> >> >>>>>>>>>
>> >> >> >>>>>>>>> Wow.
>> >> >> >>>>>>>>>
>> >> >> >>>>>>>>
>> >> >> >>>>>>>> must be a progressive.
>> >> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >> >>>>>>> <VBG>
>> >> >> >>>>>> :-) Everyone who disagrees with T&S is progressive!:-)
>> >> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >> >>>>>
>> >> >> >>>>> Not everyone who disagrees with me is a progressive, but they are all
>> >> >> >>>>> equally wrong.
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>> If it wasn't for progressive people, half of the US would be trying to
>> >> >> >>>> shoot the other half and the US would have started WW3 a long time
>> >> >> >>>> ago. All your roads and bridges would be falling apart because taxes
>> >> >> >>>> are evil and only your millionaires would have healthcare.
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>> As an elderly Dutch journalist who spent half his life in the US
>> >> >> >>>> recently said: "The US is a third world country with a rich, white top
>> >> >> >>>> layer."
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Utter nonsense...the poor in the US live far better lives than the European middle class...they've higher disposable income, they have far more luxuries and conveniences...
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Heck, in France they still use squat toilets and chamber pots...peeps croak during heat spells from lack of air conditioning...they have to save up for a few days to buy a cheeseburger even...AND the thieving socialist system ROBS folks of income, opportunity, and just basic everyday dignity.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> I don't think you travel abroad much
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >https://mises.org/blog/poor-us-are-r...ss-much-europe
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/21/be...-middle-class/
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Friends of mine went to Times Square (or whatever it's called: where
>> >> >> that big clock is). They loved it. But they also said: "If you turn
>> >> >> the wrong corner twice, you're in the third world."
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Is that true? Well, they wouldn't lie.
>> >> >
>> >> >Lots of big cities throughout the world are like that.
>> >>
>> >> 2 corners from a tourist attraction? Maybe in Nigeria or Zimbabwe.
>> >
>> >I bet it doesn't take very long in Hong Kong to get from a tourist
>> >attraction to some very sketchy neighborhoods.
>>
>> I don't know anything about Hong Kong. We were talking about the US,
>> weren't we?
>
>You were slagging the U.S. I pointed out that lots of cities
>throughout the world have poor areas near rich ones.

It was about unrelated people who've been to the US, saying it's a 3rd
world country. I've never been there myself. I did recently see
documentaries about Detroit and St Louis. Parts of those cities look
like post-nuclear hellholes. I think the countryside's a lot better.