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Latin America

House of Roberts

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3. If their own countries weren't so corrupt,

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #2)

Sun May 18, 2014, 03:30 AM

May 2014

they wouldn't want to come here.

As I have learned more and more about US 'foreign relations', I have come to the conclusion that our oligarchs only care about Central and South America for what they can steal from them. I find it hard to believe the average US American would be worse off if those countries were run by honest leaders who negotiated a fair price for those countries resources, natural and otherwise. The wealthy and corrupt wouldn't be better off, and so what!

I always remember the old guy John Houseman, on the Smith-Barney ads: We make money the old fashioned way - we earn it! All countries would be better off if that were so.

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