Nipper:
I'm not a distinguish graduate with honors, i'm a humble engineer graduated from a foreign university, but since experience beats schooling most of the time i'll tell you my experience: I lived in cuba 24 years of my life, i have the promises of fidel castro fresh in my mind, then i have the pleasure of living in venezuela and i had a very succesfull bussiness when hugo chavez was elected, but my business went down, then again in the name of "wealth sharing", today, my former employees are unemployed because of chavez.
As you can see, i had my fair share of "sweet talkers", i hope i'm wrong for the sake of america, but the way i see it, this is not "usual bussiness" between republicans and democrats, this is much deeper, 50% of our population believes in hard work and honest earnings as a way to get ahead in life, the other 50% have the hand extended to see what falls in it, 50% believes in the " american dream", the other 50% are blaming the rich for everything bad that happens to them .
When i had the chance to study the history of cuba, after i left, i realized that we didn't have a bad system after all, but yet we wanted it better, and we started bashing the rich, we started calling all the politicians "corrupts"
and our media only criticized the government and made a modern "robin hood" out of fidel castro without looking deep enough into the caracter. Sounds familiar ?.
Having said my piece, i'll tell you this: I'm not american by birth, but by choice
and i love this country dearly, because this is where i'm going to die and for the sake of america, i hope i'm wrong.
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