When I sadly had to leave, I thought to myself, Who's rich? Me, the 'rich American' or these 'poverty stricken' people. Go personally to some of these 3rd world countries, learn the language, and live with the people and see just how accurate this PPP is.
When a malaria threatens this idyllic paradise, which of the local witch doctors is going to invent antibiotics in time to save himself and the others?
When a hurricane threatens, who is going to build the concrete storm shelters?
When a socialist dictator in a nearby country decides to expand his empire, whose guns are going to keep his thugs from raping and murdering the entire village?
Your post exemplifies the worst instincts in human nature - run and hide and let someone else solve the big problems.
169 - "Your post exemplifies the worst instincts in human nature - run and hide and let someone else solve the big problems."
Apparently you haven't read the thread and the free-traitors arguments.
None of thse are things are the responsibility of anyone but the individuals. It's "every man for himself. Damn everyone else to hell, all profits to me"
Don't you see the free-traitors out there fighting their own battles, building their own roads, doing their own policing?
PS, interestingly enough, I was there with a medical team, bringing medicine and some treatments to the village, not hiding out, but taking care of some of the very problems you specified.