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Go Walk Yourself, Douchebag
By The Boss on Mar 17, 2008 | In Politics, Business | 1 feedback »
Remember? This is how Robert E. Baker, the charismatic yet ultra conservative president of the American Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Panama, explained poverty last year in the Latin Business Chronicle for those dumb people who failed to see the bright side of it all:
If you have to walk to school each day, as many of our parents did, does that mean you are poor? There are thousands of children in the countryside of Panama who walk to school every day and they do not consider themselves poor. In fact, they seem quite happy and also appear to be in excellent health. Typically, when they get home from school their mother or father is there waiting for them. In this case, is it good to be poor because you get more quality time with your parents? We might consider the kids of a first-world country who arrive home to an empty house to be poor because they have no mother or father to welcome them with a warm hug and a kiss.
Of course he's right. There's nothing against a bit of barefoot walking for poor children. Look at these healthy and happy feet!
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