Don't Check Me....Check Ya Self
Aiiight CapoDom,
No offense taken, please, I am a degreed professional with more than a singular interest in my own situation or my own ethnicity. The fact that the mere mention of race seems to spark an unwarranted accusation of playing the race/nationality card is just the type of response I was trying to provoke.
The comparison I was making goes only as far as your mind is allowed understand. If you are predisposed to believe that "everyone begins with the same chances to seize opportunity" and "if you fail it is your own fault", I would say you are limited in your understanding of social dynamics.
On the other hand, if you believe that everyone White or nearly White is joined in a conspiricy against you because you are not, you will be limited in your ability to rise above your current status due to jealousy and/or hate.
CapDom I raised the fact that a life is a life and to place different dollar/peso values on lives just because they were born on different soil means that if you (CapDom) are not American (But I am), I am worth more than you. Now CapDom is that even remotley true?
Perhaps it is just me but I have to ask you a question, what caused you to raise the issues of drug dealing, stealing and corruption? Especially considering the manner in which the question was initially raised? We were discussing how people given the same job are paid different rates, not the merits of social injustice vs. social anarchy, which is what you get if you get an excuse to steal because of being born poor.
CapDom if every life were to be accounted for on the same scale that U.S. lives are accounted for, we might not even be at war, it might be just a little too expensive.....and I am serious. The issue of labor cost vs. potential profits is a question that doesn't disappear during war, in fact to disguise it under a "pending crisis" is just the strategy to use if you do not want the people who must fight, die, and surivive in the war theater to know what the ultimate goal is.
I just think beating up on a couple of DR guys trying to get paid like the Americano/Brits/Irish and other Anglo contractors misses the entire point. Want to be mad at people who steal, then be mad at the people who short DR contractors unless you really believe an American driving a truck is worth more than a DR driving a truck. Capo when will you open your eyes to the facts? The American income is why we live so well but it is also why we lose so many jobs, so many people are willing to accept less than an American. And to make that palatable they may even say, Americans are greedy, or Americans are lazy, but the truth is we place value on life and rights, not just for the rich but even for the lowest street-walker. So until the rest of the world catches up DR, Mexicans, Hondurans, ect ect will bust their backs and people like me (Americans/Brits/Austrailians) will collect the profits. Are you so mad at me for pointing that out?
, pointing what out? Your defending the poor Dominican thieves in Iraq. American income isn't that great, unless your living in DR