We are a third world country. It's time we started acting like one..

Webster Green

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:33 PM
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We are a third world country. It's time we started acting like one..

Edited on Sat Sep-10-05 12:49 PM by Webster Green

Surround the White House with millions of people, demanding resignations of the criminal bush gang!

Demand resignations! Now!

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Politically_Wrong

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:37 PM
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1. 3rd world?

Aren't we a first world....Aren't africa and things like that 3rd world countries?

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Webster Green

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:41 PM
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3. Not from what I'm seeing on my TeeVee!...

Looks more like third world kinda stuff to me!

What channel are you watching, anyway?

Demand resignations! Now!

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Don Claybrook

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:41 PM
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4. Try looking at it this way

Bangladesh and the Gulf Coast: do you see much difference?

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shraby

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:43 PM
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5. In fact, Bangladesh sent us aid for Katrina!

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Webster Green

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:45 PM
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6. Yes, that was a high point in American History...

NOT!

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blondeatlast

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:47 PM
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7. Mike Chertoff, is that you? Africa isn't a COUNTRY.

Geez.

I see you joined on Independence Day. Welcome to DU.

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moof

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Sat Sep-10-05 02:16 PM
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9. If it is you Mike, could you point out the "city of Louisiana " on a map ?

Edited on Sat Sep-10-05 02:17 PM by moof

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MountainLaurel

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Sat Sep-10-05 05:17 PM
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14. Snork

:spray:

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Politically_Wrong

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Sat Sep-10-05 07:53 PM
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15. FOR THE RECORD...

sorry about the whole Africa being a country thing (i know it's a continent) I was a little hammered this afternoon...too much beer is never a good thing....

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hardrainfallin

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:49 PM
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8. From a historically correct perspective,

placing all considerations of "political correctness" aside, this country is a THIRD WORLD country (Africa, pre-Columbian North and South AMerica, belong to the "First World", not the third).
How the hell we white, self-rightous wonderbread heads every got it in our brains to declare 'them" the third world and elevate us to the first , hmmmm. dunno.

But we are and always have been a third world country: it's just that now the proof is in the Puddles.

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nodehopper

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Sat Sep-10-05 02:18 PM
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10. we are a third world country in the sense that

the difference between economic wealth and lack thereof does not amount to merely a difference in degree of comfort, it means literally the difference between living and dying. QED NOLA.

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Bluebear

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Sat Sep-10-05 02:24 PM
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12. We're a banana republic with Celebrity Telethons. n/t

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MountainLaurel

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Sat Sep-10-05 05:16 PM
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13. Depends on where you are

Some wards of the District of Columbia -- and I daresay other poor pockets within the country -- have infant mortality rates equal to nations like Thailand, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

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katinmn

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:40 PM
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2. You're right! www.bushville.org

Stand with the people.

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Cleita

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Sat Sep-10-05 02:24 PM
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11. The day that I saw beggers in the supermarket parking lot

and had to step over people sleeping on the sidewalk, only a half a block from where I lived, in 1979, we had become a third world country. And the injustice became institutionalized homelessness. That was twenty-five years ago and things are worse, not better, today. I also realized back then that my husband and I were only a couple of paychecks away from being there ourselves if one of us got a debilitating, chronic illness that would eat up all our savings and assets.

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