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Uke · 04-20-2006, 01:19 PM

There is no city in the United States that is as crime ridden as some third world countries and cities. From Brazil to Manilla, the level of poverty is exponentially worse. And what compounds that is most police in those countries are crooked and can be bought easily. Many people in places like Pakistan and Turkey don't care about their own lives, so committing crimes is nothing to them because they feel like they have nothing to lose.

I've lived and been all over NYC and that includes the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn. I've been to many other cities around America and none of them compare to the poverty in foreign cities I've seen. In America, you might have gangs and some criminals. In foreign countries children are so poor that they walk the streets naked. They beg constantly. Some of them are armed. Crime is a way of life for most of them. Jamaica may be a beautiful island, but once you wander away from tourist havens, you'll see everything I just described. And its not just in Jamaica. Its all over the world.

We as Americans live in something like "The Matrix" .... a made up reality. We live in our own microcosm where the worst case scenarios involve welfare and social service assistance, while in foreign countries most people don't even have rights. Most don't have phones to call the police. Extortion is commonplace, and so are drugs.

I said it before and I'll say it again: POOR=CRIME

And their poor is much more abundant than our poor. Their poor has hit rock bottom, to a point where 11 year old girls are prostituting themselves in the streets. Young kids have guns and young teens are the ones doing the muggings. Cabrini Green and Compton have nothing on these places. East New York and Spanish Harlem have nothing on these places. Not even close.

I'm not saying that life isn't rough in inner city projects. We both know that isn't true. I'm simply saying that as poor and as hopeless as it may sometime seem in America's poor areas, the poor here are at least protected by laws a lot more than poor people abroad.

04-20-2006, 01:19 PM	#24 (permalink)
Uke Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: NY Posts: 1,317 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	J-Luck There is no city in the United States that is as crime ridden as some third world countries and cities. From Brazil to Manilla, the level of poverty is exponentially worse. And what compounds that is most police in those countries are crooked and can be bought easily. Many people in places like Pakistan and Turkey don't care about their own lives, so committing crimes is nothing to them because they feel like they have nothing to lose. I've lived and been all over NYC and that includes the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn. I've been to many other cities around America and none of them compare to the poverty in foreign cities I've seen. In America, you might have gangs and some criminals. In foreign countries children are so poor that they walk the streets naked. They beg constantly. Some of them are armed. Crime is a way of life for most of them. Jamaica may be a beautiful island, but once you wander away from tourist havens, you'll see everything I just described. And its not just in Jamaica. Its all over the world. We as Americans live in something like "The Matrix" .... a made up reality. We live in our own microcosm where the worst case scenarios involve welfare and social service assistance, while in foreign countries most people don't even have rights. Most don't have phones to call the police. Extortion is commonplace, and so are drugs. I said it before and I'll say it again: POOR=CRIME And their poor is much more abundant than our poor. Their poor has hit rock bottom, to a point where 11 year old girls are prostituting themselves in the streets. Young kids have guns and young teens are the ones doing the muggings. Cabrini Green and Compton have nothing on these places. East New York and Spanish Harlem have nothing on these places. Not even close. I'm not saying that life isn't rough in inner city projects. We both know that isn't true. I'm simply saying that as poor and as hopeless as it may sometime seem in America's poor areas, the poor here are at least protected by laws a lot more than poor people abroad. __________________ A solar panel 100 miles by 100 miles (161x161km) in the Mojave Desert (USA) could replace all the coal now burned to generate electricity in the entire U.S.