Japan. Germany

[Guest guest]

Good points Renee.

 

I remember dating a guy from Peru who said to me one day that

in South America there is no distinction between different races,

only between nationalities there..I also remember hearing an

interview on NPR about a black American male going to Brazil

and at first he too thought there was no distinction made--on the

surface, that's true, then, late he learned the subtley of it..there

was some different treatment, but it was very subtle..

 

The thing about mixing it up is it strenthens the gene pool.

Breeds out weird stuff like Tay-Sachs and sickle cell...

 

I remember too, watching a wman attorney who had decided to

study the welfre system in Europe for some reason--they have

totally different attitudes about it there--and by the way folks,

know how much of your tax dollar would actually go to a welfare

program in the US? About 1 and half to three cents per dollar.

and out of that, a hefty portion goes to pay the worker, not the

TANF recipient.. Okay so back to what I was trying to write: the

attorney decided the reason that we have such a crappy view of

taking care of families--rememver in Europe women have up to 7

years to say home with the family and get paid for it--the reason

we're not keen of this is...they think of their populations as

homogenous--get it? They think of their people as white soit's

okay to take care of the latger family, so to speak, , while we think

of welfare people as black goof-offs, even though statstically

speaking they are mostly white women--and abused women at

that...Then there's that little thing about us paying for Eurpoe's

military ina big way..so our tax dollars go to arms manufacturers

and thento the military. Right now, no one is going to be upset

with that, given out frined Osama--i'm saying we spend differently

than the Europeans..c`

 

I wish when we paid out taxes, that we got to decide where the

money went..I wonder how much of it would go where? Even a

national survey on the nex tax form on this would be fun, and

enlightening, I think..

 

Please forgive my typos--I don't have my contacts in..

 

Best Wishes,

 

D.

[Guest guest]

I wish when we paid out taxes, that we got to decide where the

money went..I wonder how much of it would go where? Even a

national survey on the nex tax form on this would be fun, and

enlightening, I think..

I second the motion...great idea!

Thanks for offering your thoughts, D.

Thanks to you and everyone else, and thanks to Das, for this list.

Love,

Carol