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Re: poverty in Iraq, Somalia etc vs in America
Posted by Jeffrey (Guest) - Monday, March 28 2011, 1:29:08 (UTC)
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Dear Rashad,

I know this is anecdotal, but your comment about the restaurant reminded me of something I was once told by a family friend:

Rashad wrote:
> We went into a restaurant and ate. The customers were putting money into the register themselves without the owner looking at them or demanding money. If you left without paying, nobody would even look at. This is how life was and people were all well off.
>

He worked for the national bank of Iraq, he was a bank manager for his entire life. His job was to facilitate loans for small businesses. He told me that in decades (DECADES, BA'AD!!), not one person ever defaulted on their loan. He said that they always repaid their debts in Iraq, but "here, it is very different".

Here, of course, refers to the US of A. After the war, he and his wife fled Iraq. He had planned on moving to the US and retiring a millionaire because he had worked his whole life for the Iraqi bank and had a pension, as well as savings of 400,000 dinars, which back then were worth $3 each. A single dinar was worth 3 dollars. He was planning on moving here and retiring, and instead he moved here with nothing but the clothes on his back, and was a laborer, a 70 year old man, who struggled to just eek by a living with him and his wife. Such sad stories, such noble people.



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