We are a third world country. It's time we started acting like one..

[Webster Green]

Surround the White House with millions of people, demanding resignations of the criminal bush gang!


Demand resignations! Now!

[Politically_Wrong]

1. 3rd world?

Aren't we a first world....Aren't africa and things like that 3rd world countries?

[Webster Green]

3. Not from what I'm seeing on my TeeVee!...

Looks more like third world kinda stuff to me!

What channel are you watching, anyway?


Demand resignations! Now!

[Don Claybrook]

4. Try looking at it this way

Bangladesh and the Gulf Coast: do you see much difference?

[shraby]

5. In fact, Bangladesh sent us aid for Katrina!

[Webster Green]

6. Yes, that was a high point in American History...

NOT!


Demand resignations! Now!

[blondeatlast]

7. Mike Chertoff, is that you? Africa isn't a COUNTRY.

Geez.

I see you joined on Independence Day. Welcome to DU.

[moof]

9. If it is you Mike, could you point out the "city of Louisiana " on a map ?

[MountainLaurel]

14. Snork

:spray:

[Politically_Wrong]

15. FOR THE RECORD...

sorry about the whole Africa being a country thing (i know it's a continent) I was a little hammered this afternoon...too much beer is never a good thing....

[hardrainfallin]

8. From a historically correct perspective,

placing all considerations of "political correctness" aside, this country is a THIRD WORLD country (Africa, pre-Columbian North and South AMerica, belong to the "First World", not the third).
How the hell we white, self-rightous wonderbread heads every got it in our brains to declare 'them" the third world and elevate us to the first , hmmmm. dunno.

But we are and always have been a third world country: it's just that now the proof is in the Puddles.

[nodehopper]

10. we are a third world country in the sense that

the difference between economic wealth and lack thereof does not amount to merely a difference in degree of comfort, it means literally the difference between living and dying. QED NOLA.

[Bluebear]

12. We're a banana republic with Celebrity Telethons. n/t

[MountainLaurel]

13. Depends on where you are

Some wards of the District of Columbia -- and I daresay other poor pockets within the country -- have infant mortality rates equal to nations like Thailand, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

[katinmn]

2. You're right! www.bushville.org

Stand with the people.

[Cleita]

11. The day that I saw beggers in the supermarket parking lot

and had to step over people sleeping on the sidewalk, only a half a block from where I lived, in 1979, we had become a third world country. And the injustice became institutionalized homelessness. That was twenty-five years ago and things are worse, not better, today. I also realized back then that my husband and I were only a couple of paychecks away from being there ourselves if one of us got a debilitating, chronic illness that would eat up all our savings and assets.