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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:23 AM
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8. for 10 years I worked in the UN on refugee affairs and worked on the
resettlement of more than 400,000 refugees. When people say it has to be perfect or govenment doesn't matter I have seen personlly that good is better than nothing and we never get perfect. And government actions do have an effect. I went into Vietnam shortly after the war was over. I saw over a million people housed in refugee camps between Thailand and Indonesia. It was government action that got those people in action and it was government action that got those people out.

But for the last 7 years I have shared the feeling of helplessness that you speak to.

This long nightmare is about to come to a close and those of us with great passion for our candidates should not let that passion blind us to a great thing that is about to happen - if we make it happen. Thank you for your post.
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