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How is the world's wealth distributed.

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mardigrasman Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 1:25pm  

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>> We have only evisted for less than 300 years. They have existed for 1000's. Its not all our fault. Aren't we victims of our own policies as well?
 
@BooBear: Who existed for 1000 years?
 
@EvanCarroll:
 
Apparently you did not take world history in high school, did you? Do your own research like you always perform and learn from it! 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 1:29pm  
Russia for one. Why are they poor? Different countries in Africa, how has the US kept them down? These places have been populated for millennia. 4951
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mardigrasman Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 1:35pm  
Russia for one. Why are they poor? Different countries in Africa, how has the US kept them down? These places have been populated for millennia.
 
@BooBear:
 
The middle east comes to mind, as well... 4951
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 1:38pm  
Russia for one. Why are they poor? Different countries in Africa, how has the US kept them down? These places have been populated for millennia.
 
@BooBear: The Russian Federation only existed since 1991. And, since they've existed US-backed Putin has forced all kinds of political dissidents from power. Garry Kasparov was (and is) hiding in exile because it wasn't safe for him to run for office inside of Russia.
> http://www.rferl.org/content/kasparov-russia-exile/25008778.html 4951
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mardigrasman Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 1:39pm  

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>> Russia for one. Why are they poor? Different countries in Africa, how has the US kept them down? These places have been populated for millennia.
 
@BooBear: The Russian Federation only existed since 1991.
 
@EvanCarroll:
 
USSR? 4951
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 1:43pm  
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USSR?
 
@mardigrasman: And, look what the USSR did in the 70 years it existed as an enemy of the United States. It went from a peasant economy to a rival of the United States. I'm not saying that their brutality on their own people was justified, but that breaking ties with the US certainly paid off for them.
> In accordance with the Sovnarkom decree of December 26, 1919, signed by its head Vladimir Lenin, the new Emoticonolicy of likbez ("liquidation of illiteracy"), was introduced. The new system of universal compulsory education was established for children. Millions of illiterate adult people all over the country, including residents of small towns and villages, were enrolled in special literacy schools. Komsomol members and Young Pioneer detachments played an important role in the education of illiterate people in villages. The most active phase of likbez lasted until 1939. In 1926, the literacy rate was 56.6 percent of the population. By 1937, according to census data, the literacy rate was 86% for men and 65% for women, making a total literacy rate of 75%.[3] 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 1:49pm  
Come on Evan, go back a little farther. My point is that these countries have been in existence for many more years than the us. We have prospered, they have not. We haven't always been the enemy to every nation, holding them down and keeping them poor. They do it to theirselves. I am not saying the us is innocent if wrongdoing but we haven't done it all. 4951
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 2:01pm  
Come on Evan, go back a little farther. My point is that these countries have been in existence for many more years than the us. We have prospered, they have not. We haven't always been the enemy to every nation, holding them down and keeping them poor. They do it to theirselves. I am not saying the us is innocent if wrongdoing but we haven't done it all.
 
@BooBear: But your point is wrong, you can't name a single country that was in existence for a thousand years. Land changes hand and policies that govern that land change hands. The United States sits on America, the country has been here 300 years, the land -- much longer. It'd be wrong to say that United States had 10,000 years to achieve the wealth it has today because the land was used for something different then. Most countries you point to have relatively new puppet governments that we created. Most of them had older empires that were toppled by the people or lost to military pressures. 
You can't point your finger to a non-existent government and ask why the people don't have Education today. It doesn't make sense.Did we do it all -- no, obviously we didn't. But, with Neoliberal policies the person at the top is almost surely responsible for more blame. 4951
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PedroDePacas Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 2:28pm  
I dont care who you are, where in the world you live, what race, religion, nationality, sexual preference, hair color, eye color, financial status; if you want to become wealthy and successful you can.
 
How?
 
Work hard, quit making/accepting excuses and realize the world is not fair; shut up and deal with it.
 
Instead of whining about things being unfair at a park in downtown houston, get your butt in a college classroom and work a night shift at the ship channel. In a few years you can have what you are protesting against. 4951
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TXSG Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 2:51pm  

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>> @EvanCarroll:
 
USSR?
 
@mardigrasman: And, look what the USSR did in the 70 years it existed as an enemy of the United States. It went from a peasant economy to a rival of the United States. I'm not saying that their brutality on their own people was justified, but that breaking ties with the US certainly paid off for them.
> In accordance with the Sovnarkom decree of December 26, 1919, signed by its head Vladimir Lenin, the new policy of likbez ("liquidation of illiteracy"), was introduced. The new system of universal compulsory education was established for children. Millions of illiterate adult people all over the country, including residents of small towns and villages, were enrolled in special literacy schools. Komsomol members and Young Pioneer detachments played an important role in the education of illiterate people in villages. The most active phase of likbez lasted until 1939. In 1926, the literacy rate was 56.6 percent of the population. By 1937, according to census data, the literacy rate was 86% for men and 65% for women, making a total literacy rate of 75%.[3]
 
@EvanCarroll:  From E Notes  "The height of the Stalinist repression, known as the Great Terror, lasted from
1936 to 1939. The majority of victims during this period were from the Communist
Party, the economic ministries, the military, the Communist International, and
minority nationalities. No precise figures exist. Official KGB figures for
1937 1938 claim that just under 700,000 were executed and that at the beginning of
the 1940s there were about 3.6 million in labor camps and prisons. Stephen
Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies have calculated that the total number of excess
deaths from 1927 to 1938 may have amounted to some ten million persons, 8.5
million killed between 1927 and 1936 and about 1 to 1.5 million between 1937 and
1938." Is it possible this helped increase the literacy rate???
4951
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 2:55pm  
Is it possible this helped increase the literacy rate???
 
@TXSG: Yes, a war helps increase the literacy rate because all of the school children are on the battle field...
Why are conservatives so partisan and stupid? 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 3:03pm  

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>> Is it possible this helped increase the literacy rate???
 
@TXSG: Yes, a war helps increase the literacy rate because all of the school children are on the battle field...
Why are conservatives so partisan and stupid?
 
@EvanCarroll:
 
Probably because we weren't breast fed. JMO. 4951
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 3:08pm  
www.jstor.org/discov er/10.2307/2498019?u id=3739968&u id=2&ui Wheatcroft calculated 5.1 million dead to collectivization. That sounds about right-ish, the process was brutal. The whole great terror was about killing communists that stood against collectivization. The costs were pretty high, but the economic policy was mostly successful.The United States does the kind of **** though,Perhaps the single most active military officer in the Banana Wars was U.S. Marine Corps Major General, Smedley Butler, who saw action in Honduras in 1903, served in Nicaragua enforcing American policy from 1909–1912, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his role in Veracruz in 1914, and a second Medal of Honor for bravery while "crush(ing) the Caco resistance" in Haiti in 1915. In 1935, Butler wrote in his famous book War Is a Racket:I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especiallyTampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for theInternational Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jul 21, '13 3:11pm  
Do we really need to start c/p? 4951
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fcabanski Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jul 22, '13 6:31pm  
"@squirtismyboy:
The whole point of your argument is that they don't want education.
That argument doesn't stand if you factor out their inability to afford
education."Why can't their parents afford the education?Why can't they do what I did after my merit scholarship became a minority scholarship, and I lost it?  I took a job at the school for discount tuition, and I took out school loans. 4951
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