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Re: poverty in Iraq, Somalia etc vs in America
Posted by Rashad (Guest) - Monday, March 28 2011, 7:23:31 (UTC)
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I try to tell these dumb Americans that because they have this idea that Iraqis lived horrible and now is like paradise. Rich Americans who buy expensive homes here, live in wood houses while Iraqis live in concrete houses with ceramic tiles. Iraqis had a higher standard of living that the average American. When I tell them how Iraqis, weather they ever worked or not, received a check as they got older, these idiots tell me that must mean lazy people could just live off that without working, but that wasn't the case. Iraqis still got up at 5 in the morning to work. I remember how we would be sleeping on the roof and I would look down early in the morning and see the neighbors all awake and praying, and getting ready for business. Older Arab women in the streets selling that delicious yogurt for breakfast or that mouthwatering creme(gemar).

The days when the Iraqi dinar was 3 dollars US are known as the "golden days" for Iraqis or as they say "ayam el khayr". Americans wouldn't know of that since they never traveled or learned anything. They think living in trailer parks is the live when Iraqis would laugh at that even now. Iraq was a wonderful country and it was the US and 28 other countries who destroyed it. When we went to visit, it was my sister's birthday and we went to a restaurant. The Arab owner found out what our occasion was and he ended up letting us eat free and he payed for the huge cake. These are people who know kindness and hospitality. They had one phone in the entire neighborhood where my uncle lived and everyone used it. Our neighbors here don't even greed us when they see us.

In those golden days, my uncle worked for Karkuk oil company(koc) where he was making 400 dinars a month. Those were days were 10 dinars were considered wonderful and he was making a lot more. He is now working 75 hours per week as a taxi driver in Canada with all the education he's got. He is 74 years old and still has to work like a donkey just to survive and pay property tax. Who the fuck payed property tax, business tax or any kind of fucking tax in Iraq? What a change huh? If you went to the hospital, it was free, and if you wanted to see private doctor who had his own clinic, it was a few coins a]t most and even the poorest could afford it. The taxi drivers would drive you all over Baghdad for a few coins and our assholes complain about Iraqis and what Muslims did to them. Toof in their faces for real that's all I can say to them.



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