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Originally posted by Neb:
Well Cheetah, I guess you're going to have to be fed up with one more person who isn't a mod telling you what you should do, I think that it was just SLIGHTLY caustic what you said:
"Well excuse me whilst I burst into tears here. The richest country in the world has citizens in need - poor education poor medical treatment and crap food?"
That sounded kinda rude, and you could have been a BIT more caring about the americans, for anyone who cares his/her country more than I do and got such a thing said about their country I can understand that it might have hurt a bit, I think that you should, instead of asking me to try to tell him that you're sorry, email him and tell him, I probably won't get a chance to talk with him today anyway, I usually think you keep your cool and stay in control, but this time, I think you should have kept a BIT more calm, and I have to say that I disagree with both the post that I quoted at the top of my post and the one that I took a bit from a bit further down.
In my opinion, you should apologize to Cloudy and Hiram, how you do it, I care not, I just think you should.
EDIT: I do agree with you that it is unfair that YOU get "wrist-slapped" while Yorick doesn't, but did you consider the possibility that Cloudy might not even have SEEN that one of Yorick's posts?
Neb, I'm realising that people have totally misunderstood what I meant by that remark. Perhaps reading the rest of the post makes it clearer? If you continue on, I think you will see that unconcern for the poor is not at the heart of what I meant at all.
Essentially, what I was trying to say (obviously not very well), was that in a country as rich as America, there doesn't HAVE to be the degree of poverty that there is (same goes for the UK).
Privatised services equating to a very patchy support system for those who are born in terrible circumstances do not help the poor and disadvantaged to get anything like a quality life. In the meantime, big business benefits from low corporation taxes, plus a whole slew of loopholes which allow them to rake in large profits. In my opinion, it is down to government to pass legislation which is geared to assisting all citizens to a quality life, rather than benefiting the rich and powerful who pay back favours with money for the party coffers, paying for the all singing all dancing elections which are all image and no substance.
Although, as I have said, I am not a communist, I am in favour of state provision of services, and higher taxes, especially for those with more who can afford to pay them.
As for apologising to Cloudy, sorry, I don't believe I have anything to apologise for. I'll talk to Hiram on AIM. At present, I can't get on it.
But again, I really don't think what I said in reply to his post warrants all this overreaction.