I keep offending you and I don't mean to... You wanna hear how middle-of-the-road I am?
First off, I love this country. Never, ever doubt that. We have more freedom than anywhere else can think about. But government policy of our country both crushes the backs of the poor (ok, I hate saying something like this without an example... We allow our corporations which are based here in the U.S. to violate international law because it's for the almighty dollar, children forced into labor into mines... Don't believe it doesn't go on? Head over to Papau New Guinea) and the breath out of Mother Nature... But I am a big believer in free enterprise, capitalism and supply-side economics (go freaking figure)... I am what you would call an extremist politically because I want both, but noone ever can see how my ideas are possible...
Now addressing organizations I would join... WHO, Amnesty International, Peace Corp... I actually can't think of a human rights/help group that has become "extremist." I would gladly goto any country to help in any little way I could (well duh, I am a nurse).
And don't let the power company fool you... I'm sure they own plenty of coal burning plants, a common problem that every corporation can speak out of both sides of their mouths. SURE! Let's get solar power for the kids! But for the rest of you, here's some fossilized dinosaur poop and guts that when burned make such pretty smoke. Ya know, that's not fair... Fossil fuels are a renewable resource... Once we die, we'll become fossilzed remains for hopefully a smarter civilization...
You ask why they can't do things for themselves? Well, two big things stand in the way of most of the impoverished world... Lack of food and clean water makes you constantly sick and you really don't care... In other words, we need to be the person without a voice, much like animals... Also, if they are part of the middle-class or whatever, they can eat and drink water that doesn't have shit in it, protests are crushed in their country like mosquitos in a hot Texas summer (i.e. China's student protests of 1989). Another sad note, in third world nations, 99% of the populace has some sort of infestation either in their bowels or in their blood. Yum yum.
I wish I had some cute name for wanting to help the populace of the world, but peoplehugger sounds far too stupid. Makes me sound like I have a fetish or something. I guess I don't need a label, and that's fine by me... And I will laugh at anyone that calls me a liberal... Far far from it... I'm so middle-of-the-road, I will make your head spin...
Sorry about being stereotyping-ish-ness... I can't say it won't happen again, but I'll apologize if it does...
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Date: 2002-03-13 05:47 am (UTC)First off, I love this country. Never, ever doubt that. We have more freedom than anywhere else can think about. But government policy of our country both crushes the backs of the poor (ok, I hate saying something like this without an example... We allow our corporations which are based here in the U.S. to violate international law because it's for the almighty dollar, children forced into labor into mines... Don't believe it doesn't go on? Head over to Papau New Guinea) and the breath out of Mother Nature... But I am a big believer in free enterprise, capitalism and supply-side economics (go freaking figure)... I am what you would call an extremist politically because I want both, but noone ever can see how my ideas are possible...
Now addressing organizations I would join... WHO, Amnesty International, Peace Corp... I actually can't think of a human rights/help group that has become "extremist." I would gladly goto any country to help in any little way I could (well duh, I am a nurse).
And don't let the power company fool you... I'm sure they own plenty of coal burning plants, a common problem that every corporation can speak out of both sides of their mouths. SURE! Let's get solar power for the kids! But for the rest of you, here's some fossilized dinosaur poop and guts that when burned make such pretty smoke. Ya know, that's not fair... Fossil fuels are a renewable resource... Once we die, we'll become fossilzed remains for hopefully a smarter civilization...
You ask why they can't do things for themselves? Well, two big things stand in the way of most of the impoverished world... Lack of food and clean water makes you constantly sick and you really don't care... In other words, we need to be the person without a voice, much like animals... Also, if they are part of the middle-class or whatever, they can eat and drink water that doesn't have shit in it, protests are crushed in their country like mosquitos in a hot Texas summer (i.e. China's student protests of 1989). Another sad note, in third world nations, 99% of the populace has some sort of infestation either in their bowels or in their blood. Yum yum.
I wish I had some cute name for wanting to help the populace of the world, but peoplehugger sounds far too stupid. Makes me sound like I have a fetish or something. I guess I don't need a label, and that's fine by me... And I will laugh at anyone that calls me a liberal... Far far from it... I'm so middle-of-the-road, I will make your head spin...
Sorry about being stereotyping-ish-ness... I can't say it won't happen again, but I'll apologize if it does...