Comments on: Video: Why Geography Lessons Should Be Mandatory http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/20/video-why-geography-lessons-should-be-mandatory/ Global development issues and the 2008 Presidential Election Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:46:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Per Kurowski http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/20/video-why-geography-lessons-should-be-mandatory/#comment-583 Per Kurowski Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:47:20 +0000 http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/20/video-why-geography-lessons-should-be-mandatory/#comment-583 This so close to a reality show embarrassment seems to me quite similar to the excuses the left will have to come up with when in the near future they will have to explian why they thought chávez was a socialist… even though he by selling the gallon of gas for less than 10 cents of a dollar he allows the transfer of more than 10 percent of the GDP from the poorest of the poor to those who drive car… and even though he transfers much more than that from the poor low volume consumers to the big spenders, by maintaining a crazy dual foreign exchange system. I can see them with tears in their eyes and broken voices whispering... “But he was so against Bush!” And so, besides studying geography it would also do some people a lot of good to study the real facts before taken the spoken and paid for isms for granted. This so close to a reality show embarrassment seems to me quite similar to the excuses the left will have to come up with when in the near future they will have to explian why they thought chávez was a socialist… even though he by selling the gallon of gas for less than 10 cents of a dollar he allows the transfer of more than 10 percent of the GDP from the poorest of the poor to those who drive car… and even though he transfers much more than that from the poor low volume consumers to the big spenders, by maintaining a crazy dual foreign exchange system.

I can see them with tears in their eyes and broken voices whispering… “But he was so against Bush!”

And so, besides studying geography it would also do some people a lot of good to study the real facts before taken the spoken and paid for isms for granted.

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