[rktman]

Thanks again for another fine look at uncle bernie's future. LOL! There are many ungrateful snots here in this country that would NEVER believe that these sort of conditions exist today. 'Pampered', entitled ungrateful snots who whine about being 'given' a college education and just about anything else they "want".

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Second post about Romania today. Wow.

I was there visiting my fiancé’s family for a month over Christmas and New Year’s. The village she grew up in has gravel roads, but has had electricity since before Communism fell. One thing that did make me widen my eyes is that there is a single road into the village across a river, and the single lane bridge along that road has only been there since 2000. Before that, there was a ferry that you had to use to get to the village.

My mom grew up in a small town in the bootheel of Missouri in the 50’s and 60’s, and from pictures and tales of her childhood, the village my girlfriend grew up in is about equivalent to the mid-1960’s of my mom’s childhood.

The major cities are modern and most Americans would feel right at home, but the villages and smaller towns are several decades behind where even the most rural U.S. towns are now. But they are catching up.

[struggle]

I think Roxana Vancea is a good example of Romanian progress.