Monday, May 22, 2006
A long time ago!
I really stink at having a blog?? But you know I really want to start to post more often so be looking for that... in the near future! I hope that some people out there still read my blog? Hmmm.. Well if you do be praying for me cuz I have decided to take the DAT in like a week and I am going to need a lot of help and prayer! My beautiful and wonderful girlfriend came and suprised me this last weekend and it was great.. I am so thankful that I have her in my life and I could tell you so many things because there is so much on my mind but I have to go study for my DAT but be lookig for posts more frequently! :)
Friday, May 05, 2006
Back in the states....
Well I am back and still got a lot of processing to do, but I thought that I would include a couple of quotes from a book I have been reading... Confessions of an Economic Hit Man!
"Stop being so greedy and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for you cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion magazines for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowning in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things. You label them radicals or Communists. You must open your hearts to the poor and downtrodden, instead of driving them further into poverty and servitude. There's not much time left. If you don't change, you're doomed." p. 53
"Is anyone in the U.S. innocent? Although those at the very pinnacle of the economic pyramid gain the most, millions of us depend -either directly or indirectly- on the exploitation of the LDCs (less-developed countries) for our livelihoods. The resources and cheap labor that feed nearly all our businesses come from places like Indonesia, and very little ever make its way back. The loans of foreign aid ensure that today's children and their grandchildren will be held hostage. They will have to allow our corporations to ravage their natural resources and will have to forego education, healh, and other social services merely to pay us back. The fact that our own companies already received most of thiis money to build the power plants, airports, and industrial parks does not factor into this formula. Does the excuse that most Americans are unaware of this constitute innocence? Uniformed and intentionally misinformed, yes -but innocent?" p. 56
I found this statements to be extremely powerful when I read them and I hope that you find them that way as well and I would recommend this book to anyone and I am not even halfway through it! Enjoy.. and I hope to post more often now that I am back in the country! :)
"Stop being so greedy and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for you cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion magazines for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowning in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things. You label them radicals or Communists. You must open your hearts to the poor and downtrodden, instead of driving them further into poverty and servitude. There's not much time left. If you don't change, you're doomed." p. 53
"Is anyone in the U.S. innocent? Although those at the very pinnacle of the economic pyramid gain the most, millions of us depend -either directly or indirectly- on the exploitation of the LDCs (less-developed countries) for our livelihoods. The resources and cheap labor that feed nearly all our businesses come from places like Indonesia, and very little ever make its way back. The loans of foreign aid ensure that today's children and their grandchildren will be held hostage. They will have to allow our corporations to ravage their natural resources and will have to forego education, healh, and other social services merely to pay us back. The fact that our own companies already received most of thiis money to build the power plants, airports, and industrial parks does not factor into this formula. Does the excuse that most Americans are unaware of this constitute innocence? Uniformed and intentionally misinformed, yes -but innocent?" p. 56
I found this statements to be extremely powerful when I read them and I hope that you find them that way as well and I would recommend this book to anyone and I am not even halfway through it! Enjoy.. and I hope to post more often now that I am back in the country! :)
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