Walter
pre 16 godina
Most Europeans, particularly Southern Europeans, think that streets in America are paved with gold. Its only when they immigrate to Canada or US they realize that they have to roll up their sleeves if they don’t want to live in poverty. Many recent immigrants from Yugoslavia saw this very quickly and many are doing very well while others have resorted to criminal activity as well as other scams to beat the system. Poverty in US is wide spread as Michael Zweig, writes in What's Class Got to do With It, American Society in the Twenty-first Century, 2004 "While in any given year 12 to 15 percent of the population is poor, over a ten-year period 40 percent experience poverty in at least one year because most poor people cycle in and out of poverty; they don't stay poor for long periods. Poverty is something that happens to the working class, not some marginal 'other' on the fringes of society." In Canada our native people have the highest level of poverty which is due to institutional problems caused by years of European theft of property and abuse. This is also true of the Australian Aboriginal people who have a high level of alcohol and drug addiction for the same reasons. The Roma people have the same problem in every country in the Balkans and outside of the Balkans. Prejudice and discrimination is part of their life in part due to their refusal to leave the nomadic existence and integrate into the mainstream. Rather than rolling up their sleeves criminal elements many who are Albanian make their livelihood from other people’s misery and addiction.
It is interesting that Mr. Lilly tells Serbs in the Diaspora to “let the Serbs IN Serbia speak for themselves” forgetting that Albanian Lobby pays millions to people like Lugar, Dole, Lieberman and Clinton. Mr. Lilly if you ask any citizen in most countries other than Switzerland or maybe Australia where it is illegal not to vote how much influence they had on government policy the statistics would be worse than what you state for Serbia. Bush was elected by 26% of eligible voters, another 25% or so voted for the Democrats while 50% did not vote at all because they felt that they had no influence on what happens in Washington. So Mr. Lilly I suggest you roll up your sleeves read more, and you will realize that violating International Law in order to enforce it is like someone beating up their child when they send it for water so that it will not break the container.
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