Jack:
I agree there are degrees of poverty but I worked on the South Side of Chicago and what you'll see down there in the ghetto neighborhoods rivals anything anywhere else. There is primarily blue collar South Side and there are the ghettos. You get off the beaten path in Brazil* or Mexico and you'll also see conditions that are hard to fathom for most Americans.
BTW: We gave up the term "Backward Countries" a long time ago so as not to offend the citizens and went to the term "Third World" instead. So now this is offensive? What exactly does a "Developing Country" do that any different than any other country where development is going on constantly? Is this a new type of political correctnes and if it is I'll give it a label and call it "Nonspeak" ala George Orwell.
*There are hill or shanty towns ringing Rio where even the police and military are afraid to go into. There is no running water,electricity or any sanitary services. The Government has no record of who even lives in these places although it is known that they are gang controlled and everything imaginable happens there. You or I wouldn't survive for an hour in one of these locations. The resident who took me on a tour of Rio and,thru necessity you have to drive by these places, had a H&K MP5 submachine gun in the car.
I didn't think to ask him if it was loaded with Hydra Shoks to get this thread back on track.
Jim
Last edited by italiansxs; 09/03/08 08:03 PM.
