I'm really done with your lying, in particular, your invented positions for people. I've made my skeptical approach toward North Korea quite clear, don't attribute to me a position I've never held. And no communist has ever used the word "workers' paradise."
It's clearly not a "tiny percentage," it's 1 in 6 households who have no idea where their next meal will come from. Have you ever lived like that under glorious capitalism, Luiz? Because I have. Skipping meals isn't fun. And yes, that is a form of starvation. No, there aren't many people in my country starving, because they have garbage bins to pick through and food donations to get canned goods from. Oh my, isn't that such a glorious and secure life they lead under capitalism! Such dignity, having to subsist on handouts and waste because your boss is too stingy to pay you enough to survive on!
Spare me the imminent lecture about the fate of North Korean children. I never said it was rosy there, even an actual defender of DPRK like RT never said things were great there, nor downplayed the ravishings of hunger in DPRK. Read about the Arduous March, and just why North Korea faces the challenges it does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduous_March
Lying? Inventing positions for people?
RT has been vigorously defending NK, the worst regime on the planet. A country where 1/3 of the kids are stunted due to starvation. A country where violent racism and xenophobia are the state religion. A country where people are sent to concentration camps, tortured and rape for being born in the wrong family. A country whose depravity is hard to even describe.
Your position is equally disgusting. You relativize the sheer horror of North Korea by comparing it to one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the world, where nobody is starving. 1 in 6 households in the US are NOT living off garbage bins; who's lying now? It's a bad thing to not have enough to pay for your food yourself, but being on food stamps and actually starving are two very different things. In Europe and elsewhere a lot of people depend on welfare to buy food as well...
The US does not beg and blackmail foreign countries into send food aid. The US is not a nation of dwarfs whose development is stunted by lack of food. Nobody dies here because they're no eating. To compare the two is not to be stupid - because nobody is that stupid -it is to be a malevolent liar, like you.
How do you take yourself seriously? The average American makes so much money because capitalists pay the Third World so much less. There are 40 million workers in the Philippines who make less than $2 a day. Where's you smartassed defense of that, Luiz? That's capitalism at work, moving the worst of its crimes overseas where you can pretend it doesn't exist. The American worker is a tiny minority of the world capitalist workforce, effectively its middle class, and he benefits from being so close to the Big Dogs with all the money and power. But is he really better off? You understand that workers have zero control over prices, right? So we may get paid more, but we are left with no money just the same, because prices are so high for everything from food to rent. This is just so commonsense that I'm honestly embarrassed that I have to type it out and explain it to someone, most of all someone who brags about how educated he is compared to all us idiot leftists. But then I guess you have no idea what insecurity of any kind is, so it takes people who live in the Real World to educate you about it.
You're so spoiled and ignorant it's funny... you ask if the American worker is actually better off? Good God, how out of touch can one be??? The American worker can afford a nice home, and a car, and plenty of food (far more than he should eat, actually)... The American worker has plenty of leisure hours, travels on the weekend, go fishing and hunting and BBQing... It takes a colossal moron to compare that to the living nightmare that is life in a place like North Korea!
Prices in the US are fairly low compared to most other places, BTW (not that you would know! You don't know much, do you?). Food is super cheap in the US, as is gas and electricity. That's why living standards in the US are almost unparalleled (the US is #3 in the Human Development Index, only behind Norway and Australia).
It's not a matter that things "aren't rosy" in North Korea. It's a matter that North Korea is hell. It's a dystopia. It's a land of concentration camps and starving dwarfs, brainwashed by a murderous and violently racist ideology. To say that "is not rosy" is not euphemism, it is a lie.
$2 a day, BTW, is more than what the average North Korean makes. And another BTW, the average Filipino makes almost 6 times as much as the average North Korean. Again, I'll take my chances with the Capitalist oppressors, they seem to treat the workers far, far better.
