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[quote=”VictoriaLST”]I knew you would ask 🙂
Fanning the “the rich have too much” fire doesn’t impress me.[/quote]
That’s fine, Victoria, but [u]where’s the bias in the video to which you referred[/u]? You said it; not me.
Case in point;
Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and other BILIONAIRS are giving away part of their fortunes to charity
How much is to much???
1 million
1 billionknow what?? I have worked all my life to sustain my standard of living and when I die my kids will inherit all I have
but in the meantime; I get phone calls from them
“Dad; I need $$$ for a car battery and I am broke.”
“Dad; I have a job enterview and don’t have the right clothes.”
“Dad; I need to go to work but don’t have GAS MONEY.”
etc…you are not taking anything when you DIE with you
had (past tense) many brand new cars
the best shoes and clothes
@ 4 bedroom house for myself, wife and the DOG
and everything ELSENOT ANYMORE!!!!
[quote=”VictoriaLST”]The bias is in the comparison itself.[/quote]
That won’t do, Victoria. Convince us. Be specific, as I know you can. Or can you not?
http://www.thedailybell.com/28774/Paul-Craig-Roberts-The-Missing-Recovery
It’s all about the banksters Victoria, and they are creating inflation that is eating away at your savings. Why save when the true inflation rate in the US is 5 to 7%? You are losing money by saving. While making the banksters richer.
The odds of “, when the person next to you is going to pull out a semi-automatic and start shooting up the place.” is about like winning the lottery. You are much more likely to die in an automobile accident, a fall at home, drown in a pool, a house fire or by a physician in a hospital. 100,000 are supposedly killed in Hospitals every year.
Actually, the number of deaths in the U.S. from gunshots is roughly the same as the number of deaths in traffic accidents. Sadly, what most overlook in these discussions is the number of injuries. In purely financial terms, injuries are much more expensive.
The total number of deaths in auto accidents in 2011 32,367.Total number of firearm related deaths 31,000 of which 19,000 were suicides, 8,775 murders and 3,225 were justifiable or accidents.
[quote=”pistol”]The total number of deaths in auto accidents in 2011 32,367.Total number of firearm related deaths 31,000 of which 19,000 were suicides, 8,775 murders and 3,225 were justifiable or accidents.[/quote]
Yup, roughly the same.
the video is frightening in its accuracy, not its bias. sheesh. the average person isn’t getting richer; he is getting poorer, and the struggle is just to maintain the status quo. abject poverty is a fact for most of the world. go to nicaragua and you will see what i mean (although the same level of poverty exists here in CR as well). the very lovely, restored area in Granada that is host to all the tourists also has a wandering population of beggars, in both human and animal form. dirty children will come up to you while you are eating and ask for something off your plate, or they will ask to eat what you left on your plate. one night i bought a dinner for a starving dog — as i was cutting the food into pieces to give it to the dog, 4 children ran up and begged for a piece of meat, or a french fry, or a piece of lettuce. the doctor with whom i was having dinner told me that whatever i had given these children was probably all they had to eat that day, or maybe for a day or two. these kinds of conditions are deplorable by any standard, and yet, there are more people like that in the world than there are like you, Victoria.
[quote=”pistol”]The total number of deaths in auto accidents in 2011 32,367.Total number of firearm related deaths 31,000 of which 19,000 were suicides, 8,775 murders and 3,225 were justifiable or accidents.[/quote]
Much as I extol the virtues of living in Costa Rica the rate of deaths by firearms in 2007 here was 4.59 per 100,000 compared to 2.97 in the U.S. Average firearms per 100,000 in Costa Rica was 9.9, in the U.S. it was 88.8 per 100,000.
The difference is that in Costa Rica the murders are generally among family members.
Thought an update to the original post in this thread might be in order. Much has happened over the last few days! This is important news for residents of Talamanca!
One my wifes’ family members works for the OIJ and he told me that crime against a tourist is not ACCEPTABLE for them.
150 police members were involved in this operation.
They will be HUNTED down.
READ and open your eyes
http://qcostarica.com/edition/2013/03/11/costa-rica-becomes-major-drug-transit-point-to-u-s/
some months back when Laura was muttering about legalizing drugs in Costa Rica, that was all the US had to here and Janet Napoltano was on the next plane to CR to straighten her the hell out. All of these problems could be solved by legalizing this $h*t — but there is way too much money to be made and too many governments are making it to legalize it. As I said before, and nobody believed me, Costa Rica IS a narco state.
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