In a message dated 1/16/01 2:10:41 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Subj: Re: Wake up
Date: 1/16/01 2:10:41 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Alling)
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>>Bill,
I don't know what part of America you come from but
I've traveled quite a bit both inside and outside the
USA. No one here lives in anything approaching third
world poverty. There may be some recent immigrants,
mostly illegal living very poorly but most 'poor'
people in the US own their own cars have air
conditioning and enough food to become overweight.
Poor people in most of the world have a hard time
getting enough to eat, (you don't see many fat people
in the poor sections of San Palo or just about any
lower income area in Africa or South America. Someone
making $20,000 to $40,000 a year, (more than 85% of
the US population if I remember correctly), is rich
beyond the wildest dreams of the typical human being
living outside North America, Western Europe and
Japan. People in those circumstances can at least
contemplate buying an expensive modern camera.<<
To add to the above: as a missionary who yearly travels to Haiti and the
Dominican Republic, where the average yearly wage only *approaches* $300 a
year, and having worked for the Office Of Economic Opportunity in the
sixties, and seeing and working in the heart of Appalachia, I am reminded
that even there the standard of living dwarfs "Third World" incomes by
thousands of dollars.
--- William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Wake up
>
>
> ><Snipped content>
> > As you noted Pål, our numbers are smallish
> relative to the
> world's population
> > but America's consumer purchasing power makes the
> real numbers
> nearly moot.
> >
> Not true. The income disparity in the USA means
> that while
> the per capita income may seem to be very high (this
> is
> statistics at work), the fact is that there is a
> concentation of
> high income in a very small population group, making
> the USA a
> much smaller market than Mafud likes to think it is.
> A very
> large percentage of the population of the US lives
> in conditions
> approaching the poorest of the third world , while a
> very small
> percentage lives in genteel conditions. It is this
> monied gentry
> that buys the expensive consumer goods. William Robb
Mafud
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