On 1/9/2018 7:41 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 1/9/2018 5:49 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2018-01-09 4:55 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>
>> I can think of a worse case. A couple I know who went on vacation to
>> an all inclusive resort in the Caribbean. The wife drinks very
>> moderately and the husband does not drink at all.Â* Friends of theirs
>> went to the same island but stayed elsewhere. The other couple are
>> both successful lawyers and are high rollers. Instead of eating at the
>> all inclusive, for which they had already paid, these guys went out
>> for dinner everything with the high living lawyers.Â* The lawyers would
>> order a couple bottles of very expensive wine.
>>
>> The couple I knew were a little miffed about having to split the bill
>> and pay for the very expensive wine they did not even drink.Â* I am
>> wondering how they even get themselves into a situation. It would be
>> bad enough that it happened once, but apparently it was every night.
>
> That's their fault, fool me once and all.Â* Clearly they were getting
> something by hanging around with these other people or they'd say No
> thanks, we're eating at our resort.
>
There are some people who feel more important if they hang around with
people who have more money than they do. <shrug> One dinner, had a nice
time, then thanks but we've got other plans.

>> They could have eaten a meal they had already paid for in the all
>> inclusive, but instead, they ended up paying for meals elsewhere and
>> subsidizing a couple who are much better off than they are.
>
> After the first meal they knew what they were in for.Â* They shouldn't
> keep complaining about it.Â* And the well off couple is like, look how
> cheaply we partied.Â* Don't hang around with takers.
>
> nancy

Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses! I wonder if they could have
invited the lawyer couple to dine at "their" resort? The couple staying
there would eat for free as registered guests but the other couple would
have had to pay for their own dinners, right? Turnabout is fair play.

Jill

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.

Dave Smith wrote:
>
> On 2018-01-10 3:06 PM, Bruce wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I had a similar experience in Washington DC. We went by the White House
> and a few blocks later I made a left instead of a right and ended up in
> a slum.

Dave! I know exactly where you are talking about. I've been
there.
Straight across from the front of the White House, a few blocks
away is 14th St. (if I remember correctly), and it *IS* the most
slumly and dangerous area of Washington,DC. I accidentally got on
that street in the daytime and we saw:
- bums sleeping against buildings with newspaper blankets
- cheap hookers hanging out at many corners
- run down buildings
- gang-type people sitting on steps and watching us closely

And interestingly, the govt. constructed a large govt building
(3+ story) that actually blocks that view from the White House.
Turn one way and see all the nifty tourist and historic areas in
DC, turn the other way and enter the on-ramp to the apocalypse.
Lock your doors especially at night.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:43:37 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-01-10 3:06 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> I had a similar experience in Washington DC. We went by the White House
>> and a few blocks later I made a left instead of a right and ended up in
>> a slum.
>
>Dave! I know exactly where you are talking about. I've been
>there.
>Straight across from the front of the White House, a few blocks
>away is 14th St. (if I remember correctly), and it *IS* the most
>slumly and dangerous area of Washington,DC. I accidentally got on
>that street in the daytime and we saw:
>- bums sleeping against buildings with newspaper blankets
>- cheap hookers hanging out at many corners
>- run down buildings
>- gang-type people sitting on steps and watching us closely
>
>And interestingly, the govt. constructed a large govt building
>(3+ story) that actually blocks that view from the White House.
>Turn one way and see all the nifty tourist and historic areas in
>DC, turn the other way and enter the on-ramp to the apocalypse.
>Lock your doors especially at night.

Well, there ya go!

On 2018-01-11 6:41 AM, 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.
>

Can you give an example of a big city where block after block of housing
has been burned down or bulldozed, like Detroit? Maybe Aleppo??.

My wife and son when to Chicago a few years ago and he refused to take
her to some of the addresses where her father and grandparents had
lived. We don't have sections like that in our cities here..... yet<?>.

On 1/11/2018 8:43 AM, Gary wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-01-10 3:06 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I had a similar experience in Washington DC. We went by the White House
>> and a few blocks later I made a left instead of a right and ended up in
>> a slum.
>
> Dave! I know exactly where you are talking about. I've been
> there.
> Straight across from the front of the White House, a few blocks
> away is 14th St. (if I remember correctly), and it *IS* the most
> slumly and dangerous area of Washington,DC. I accidentally got on
> that street in the daytime and we saw:
> - bums sleeping against buildings with newspaper blankets
> - cheap hookers hanging out at many corners
> - run down buildings
> - gang-type people sitting on steps and watching us closely
>
> And interestingly, the govt. constructed a large govt building
> (3+ story) that actually blocks that view from the White House.
> Turn one way and see all the nifty tourist and historic areas in
> DC, turn the other way and enter the on-ramp to the apocalypse.
> Lock your doors especially at night.
>
Wow.

Just wow...

On 2018-01-11 9:33 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 1/9/2018 7:41 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 1/9/2018 5:49 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-09 4:55 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> I can think of a worse case. A couple I know who went on vacation to
>>> an all inclusive resort in the Caribbean. The wife drinks very
>>> moderately and the husband does not drink at all.Â* Friends of theirs
>>> went to the same island but stayed elsewhere. The other couple are
>>> both successful lawyers and are high rollers. Instead of eating at
>>> the all inclusive, for which they had already paid, these guys went
>>> out for dinner everything with the high living lawyers.Â* The lawyers
>>> would order a couple bottles of very expensive wine.
>>>
>>> The couple I knew were a little miffed about having to split the bill
>>> and pay for the very expensive wine they did not even drink.Â* I am
>>> wondering how they even get themselves into a situation. It would be
>>> bad enough that it happened once, but apparently it was every night.
>>
>> That's their fault, fool me once and all.Â* Clearly they were getting
>> something by hanging around with these other people or they'd say No
>> thanks, we're eating at our resort.
>>
> There are some people who feel more important if they hang around with
> people who have more money than they do. <shrug>Â* One dinner, had a nice
> time, then thanks but we've got other plans.
>
>>> They could have eaten a meal they had already paid for in the all
>>> inclusive, but instead, they ended up paying for meals elsewhere and
>>> subsidizing a couple who are much better off than they are.
>>
>> After the first meal they knew what they were in for.Â* They shouldn't
>> keep complaining about it.Â* And the well off couple is like, look how
>> cheaply we partied.Â* Don't hang around with takers.
>>
>> nancy
>
> Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses!Â* I wonder if they could have
> invited the lawyer couple to dine at "their" resort?Â* The couple staying
> there would eat for free as registered guests but the other couple would
> have had to pay for their own dinners, right?Â* Turnabout is fair play.

These are friends of my brother and his wife. I have mentioned them
before as the couple with the lovely kitchen full of the best appliance,
but which are never used because they go out for dinner every night. She
is also the one who had been invented to a birthday party for a
neighbour and was asked to bring not one but two roasted tenderloins
and two bottles of wine that had been specified and turned out to be
very expensive.

The couple they were dining with are neighbours who are both lawyers,
the man of the couple being a very prominent criminal lawyer. They are
high rollers. I guess maybe they figure they get brownie points for
being able to say that they hobnob with this couple. I just wonder how
many times they got sucked into leaving their all inclusive resort where
the dinner and drinks are already paid for and then go out for an
expensive meal elsewhere and end up splitting the bill on very expensive
wine that they did not even drink.

On 1/11/2018 11:46 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> The couple they were dining with are neighbours who are both lawyers,
> the man of the couple being a very prominent criminal lawyer. They are
> high rollers.Â* I guess maybe they figure they get brownie points for
> being able to say that they hobnob with this couple.Â* I just wonder how
> many times they got sucked into leaving their all inclusive resort where
> the dinner and drinks are already paid for and then go out for an
> expensive meal elsewhere and end up splitting the bill on very expensive
> wine that they did not even drink.

It's all speculation, isn't it? Me, after that first expensive dinner
I'd have invited them to the already paid for all-inclusive resort for
the next meal. So much for "hob-nobbing" with the fancy folks. Once I
realized I was going to have to pay again for this enchanting
opportunity, I'd have invited them to dine at the resort I'd already
paid for. The bill belongs to them. Order whatever you like, you're
going to have to pay for it. Ours is covered.

Jill

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.

Cindy Hamilton

On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 11:11:37 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-01-11 6:41 AM, 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.
> >
>
> Can you give an example of a big city where block after block of housing
> has been burned down or bulldozed, like Detroit? Maybe Aleppo??.

How exactly, are we defining "the third world"? Poverty? Crime?
Income disparity?

Cindy Hamilton

> My wife and son when to Chicago a few years ago and he refused to take
> her to some of the addresses where her father and grandparents had
> lived. We don't have sections like that in our cities here..... yet<?>.

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?

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.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

It also doesn't take long in HK to some really expensive
neighbourhoods.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:46:41 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 11:11:37 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2018-01-11 6:41 AM, 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.
>> >
>>
>> Can you give an example of a big city where block after block of housing
>> has been burned down or bulldozed, like Detroit? Maybe Aleppo??.
>
>How exactly, are we defining "the third world"? Poverty? Crime?
>Income disparity?

All of that, plus the healthcare problems, bad roads, bad bridges etc,
due to extreme unwillingness to pay taxes. There must be more.

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.

Cindy Hamilton

On 1/11/2018 1:08 PM, 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.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

With these Auztards it's /always/ about the USA, always...

A flipping hemisphere away and they spend far less time excoriating
their own Pommy masters from Blighty then they do dogging us.

That's just mental.

"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
...
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.

Cindy Hamilton

======

Always slagging the U.S., always, and you are correct about the world over
having poor areas next to rich ones, it has pretty much been so since there
were cities.

Cheri

"Casa estilo antiguo" wrote in message news
On 1/11/2018 1:08 PM, 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.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

With these Auztards it's /always/ about the USA, always...

A flipping hemisphere away and they spend far less time excoriating
their own Pommy masters from Blighty then they do dogging us.

That's just mental.

==

He isn't from 'blighty'! He is from Netherlands.

On 1/11/2018 2:09 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>
> "Casa estilo antiguo"Â* wrote in message
> news >
> On 1/11/2018 1:08 PM, 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:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> BruceÂ* 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.Â*
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 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.Â* I pointed out that lots of cities
>> throughout the world have poor areas near rich ones.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>
> With these Auztards it's /always/ about the USA, always...
>
> A flipping hemisphere away and they spend far less time excoriating
> their own Pommy masters from Blighty then they do dogging us.
>
> That's just mental.
>
> ==
>
> He isn't from 'blighty'!Â* He is from Netherlands.
>

Right you are Ms. O!

I'm applying it generically to most of the Oz trolls here, not just
"Bruce" who perhaps ironically chose the very nickname the Brits (Nigel)
hung on the Auzzies.

"Bruce" not being a typical Dutch name I think we can see why he smugly
picked that nym after he retired "John"...

But really he's a bit of Johnny One Note ftmp.

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.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:53:47 -0800, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
...
>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.
>
>Cindy Hamilton
>
>======
>
>Always slagging the U.S., always, and you are correct about the world over
>having poor areas next to rich ones, it has pretty much been so since there
>were cities.
>
>Cheri

We're only allowed to talk about the US if we pretend it's a perfect
country. Some of you are US equivalents of Janet UK. It's all so
childish...

On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 4:49:19 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> 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.

Of course it is. You couldn't pay me to live in any large city,
anywhere.

Cindy Hamilton

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:08:25 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 4:49:19 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Of course it is. You couldn't pay me to live in any large city,
>anywhere.

I wouldn't like to live in Sydney either. Too crowded, too expensive,
one big traffic jam. Here in Woop-Woop, 3 cars is a traffic jam. We
see more animals than people.