USA Visa Application Refused
I was born in Leningrad, Russia and immigrated to USA with my family, via Israel, when I was 11 years old. Living in America was very hard for all of us, but I tried my best and graduated from New York University with a degree in finance and computer information technology.
After graduating NYU, I was not able to find a suitable job because of an economic downturn, so I decided to come live in Japan with my new Japanese wife that I have just met in New York. We both came to Japan, I thinking of working as an English teacher and my wife not really knowing what she was going to do. By sheer luck I brought with me Gutamala friendship bracelets which I wholesaled at Harajuku for one usd each. After that I decided to start an import company, which I ran and managed for 10 years.
We were doing really well and saved up some money and even thinking of coming back to live in the USA, but one day when we went on vacation to Hawaii the USA immigration took away my American green card. They told me that because I spend most of my time outside America I cannot have a green card. Both my parents became neturalized American citizens, but because I was over 18 years of age at the time of application I did not become American citizen automatically but had to apply on my own, which I did not because I was busy running my business in Japan.
Now everytime I wanted to go to America I had to get a visa, which I was granted but had to come up with a lot of paper work. During that time, my father died at the age of 65 and I was not able to attend his funeral. My brother died from cancer at the age of 46, and I was not able to attend his funeral. I was not able to attend both their funerals because I did not have a valid visa at the time.
Four years ago, after living in Japan for 14 years, I’ve tried getting a USA visa so I can visit my mother who is 78 years old now and lives all alone, and the USA consulant in Osaka, Japan refused my visa, saying that I cannot prove intent of not wanting to immigrate to USA. My mother is sick and she does not have any living reletives who can help her. A few times when I called her I found her in a hospital on her death bed. God help me, for American is wrong! She is an American citizen and I her son cannot visit her. America claims it is fighting for freedom and democracy, but meanwhile it does not respsect its citizens human rights and The US Bill of Rights
Ninel Berger, Kayo, and Igor
Mr. Uyama, Atsuko, Kayo, and Igor
My old Iggy’s accessory shop in Osaka, Japan
My, Igor Berger Israeli Passport
Igor Berger Japanese Permenent Residence
USA Goverment says No to Igor Berger visa request
Tags: family, human rights, immigration, usa, visa
January 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Hey Igor
Sorry to read about your Visa troubles dude, I hope you get to see your mum soon.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Thanks Rob, very kind of you. And thank you for stopping by!
January 17th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I am very sorry to hear about your sorrowful matter. really some of government rule hurt feelings and create problem in real life.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Thank you Suresh. Life is not always fare!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I will look into this. Thanks for the Fubar tip,
January 18th, 2008 at 11:23 am
You know the Jargon, Nero!
January 25th, 2008 at 9:12 am
The unfortunate fact is the US gov’t seems to think that everyone wants to come and live in the USA. Further to that, they think that the USA is the cats ass of countries to live in. The truth is, yes there are many people who would like to move to USA but there are many more who would not give their citizenship up from their countries to live there.
USA is a debt ridden, live for today and when its time to pay, borrow more as seen in what is happening.
So, its sad that you are, and many others are denied the ability to visit but until the USA loses its silly attitude that everyone wants to attack their land and everyone wants to live there, this will never change.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I can’t argue with D. Sterling. I have a friend who, just over a year ago, was refused a visa. As a British citizen, he could have just arrived at the airport and been given a visa waiver (3 months entry, no application required). However, the US is a huge country and he thought he’d need a little longer - maybe 4 months.
So he applied, and was rejected as he has no family in the UK, no permanent residence (he rents), he is self-employed and his business address is his residential address. The same as yourself - they told him they didn’t believe he didn’t wish to emigrate to the US. As a result, he was told that he could not apply for a visa again, or try to enter the country, for three years.
As DS says, the US is really stuck up and arrogant. It assumes everyone wishes to live there when many people - like yourself - just wish to visit. Guilty until proven innocent. Whatever happened to:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
I quite fancy visiting for a holiday backpacking, but I don’t like booking flights in advance as I never know where the next day would take me. Impossible in the US due to their tourism policy - you must have an onward/return flight, you must have medical insurance (I never bother - too expensive)… Awful attitude, though thankfully I’m glad to say that every American I’ve met agrees with me - it’s a ridiculous state of affairs.
Don’t blame the country or the general population - blame the government and officials. Oh, and the UK’s not much better in all honesty. More double standards than even I can believe.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Yes American people are great and humble people. It is the goverment and the policies that are screwed up!
Yes there are some ignorant Americans but every country has its own!
And the USA goverment uses the ignorant people to enact laws. Mob Rules!
January 25th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Igor, I wish I could help you with any good advise. Unfortunately I don’t have any idee how to help you. In a matter of fact, I do have some good American friends living abroad, who left the U.S.A. because of this incredible bureaucratie. They told me that living in the U.S.A. today is as living in a circus.
This is getting wors and wors. Maybe some official will read all these comments and will realises that living in the U.S.A. is not attractive at all and mabey people want to visit the U.S.A. for other reasons than living there!!!
I wish you all the luck of the world and do hope you can visit your mother as soon as possible.
January 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Have you tried to contact an immigration lawyer either in Japan or in the US?
January 25th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Kees and others thank you for your kind words!
As far as dealing with this in a legal matter, I have attempted to do so without succes. My immigration lawayer in USA told me they have a right to deny me a visa.
One emailer told me that I have not documented my case properly to have the USA goverment grant me the visa, and he has a very good point here.
But how do I document my employment when I am a small business consultant who has invested money in a small travel company in Thailand? My salary is not ven enough to pay every day living expenses and I have to rely on my savings and my wife’s income.
I do not have a clear cut contract and a salary from an established company in Japan. I am not a clear cut case, if I were I would not be in this position.
But my mother is American citizen and USA goverment told me they do not care. It is not her who wants to visit USA but me.
I hope some of you can see this is not just about me, but about other people being bear to suffer injustices and not only in America but in other countries as well.
We are becoming a Sterile Society, if it is not nice and clean we do not want it. We are losing humanity and just do not care for people anymore!
January 25th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Igor, Iam a American citizen and it took me two years to get my thai wife to America. She did not like so moved back to Thailand. I kind of know what your going through. I work for a airline so do get down to Thailand a lot. Charlie knows me and has helped me with my VISA problems. I have a immigration lawyer here in the states if you would like his e mail address contact me.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Terry thank for the offer, but I do not think an immigration lawyer can help me. I need to prove income to the USA goverment in order for them to give me a visa.
Being that my income is coming from Thailand and it is small the USA consulant in Japan will not be interested in it, and in Thailand our company is still small to apply there.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Igor, your story is not funny at all. It is sad that you obviously will not see your mom again, because the US will NOT give you the Visa. That is so sure like the Amen in the church. Did you think about getting your mom to Thailand, so you are able to take care of her there?
My case is that my husband live in the US and I’m in Germany. I can go for 90 days (Visa Waiver) what I do twice a year. I was thinking to get a 6 month Visa, but I’m afraid the US embassy in Berlin may deny. We did not apply for family reunion, because then I will not be allowed to enter the US until the case is finished. The US government has serious problems and they need help from a physiatrist because of their persecution complex. I told my husband that we should live in Germany, but he is still not ready for that, because he is afraid not find work here immediately, since he doesn’t speak German well enough.
You should forget that you can enter the US to see your mom, Big Brother will always give you a clyster to check you out and there is no way to avoid. There is not enough money to show them. Use your energy to get your mom to Thailand, that shouldn’t be a problem. Even when she enter just with Visa at arrival for 30 days, never mind, just let her stay. Nobody will come to control.
I lived in Cha Am for 6 years with a Non-Immigrant-Visa and had a “legal” Jet Ski business there.
The people who wants to live in the US don’t know about control there and there are much better countries in the world than the US. Thailand for example, or Germany!
Good luck, Igor!
January 26th, 2008 at 8:20 am
It’s a shame you can’t find a legal way to come to the USA when we have thirteen million Mexican immigrants living and working here illegally. It’s a national disgrace.
Sorry I don’t have any advise for you.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Meike, I guess this message is my pray to God and you are all my witnesses. Only God can intervene on our behalves. Amen!
As far as bringing my Mom to Thailand it will not work she has her food, doctors, and a few Russian spoken neighbors in USA.
With God’s help our Thai travel qagency will grow big enough in time for me to get a legal visa. Or with God’s help my multi billion dollar family in Israel will wake up and amend their wrongs.
http://www.igorthetroll.com/fromenchenko-elite-strauss.php
As far as your situation goes tell your husband to try and see what can be done. I am sure there is something the German people want that Thailand has.
Regards,
Igor
January 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Igor, i’m so sorry to hear about your visa troubles. i myself am fighting a visa battle..when i say battle, i mean do all the paper work then knock my head against the wall until someone actually bothers to pivk up my application from the pile and consider it.
I know its tough, and frustrating, and at time heart wrenching. hang in there and don’t give up. i hope you find a solution.
January 29th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Igor, I am sorry for your situation. But never give up. There is always sunshine after the rain.
Take care.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Dear Igor,
So sorry to hear of your problems. Now that the elections are coming up and the fierce battle between Obama and Hilary Clinton, have you thought of forwarding this whole correspondence photos and all to one of these two people , whichever one you think best and to the Washington Post and New York times. Find out who are their campaign organisers on internet and then also , you can join/register with the Washington Mail and then you can place comments etc on their letter column and various blogs.
The fact that you are worried your mother could die any moment and that you have funds to travel and that your wife remains behind in Thailand, may just draw the attention of someone with a bit of clout somewhere. I think you must go the humanitarian way Write an open letter perhsps to Obama and Clinton jointly and their Campaign organisers in the major papers and ask them, how they would feel in your position with your mother being frail and being a USA Citizen whose wish is it to see her son before she dies. Try it !! Try everything. EVEN MENTION YOU ARE PREPARED TO REPORT TO THE NEAREST IMMIGRATION OR POLICE STATION TO YOUR MOTHER DAILY IF NECESSARY FOR THE LENGTH OF YOUR STAY. I will pop int ot meet all of you when in Bangkok later this year, May be we can go for a nice lunch. Best Regards. Yvonne.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Yvonne, I have done something like that before, sending emails, I did not get one response back. I do not want to mention the names and organization because I do not wish to undermind their efforts in the society.
I will send an email to the USA Presidential candidate, but I prefer to wait till I see who will be picked for the job. I doubt if they will be willing to help, but would be nice at least to get a reply, not have my email go to their Spam folder.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I have been a customer of Charlie Travel and got your information from your email. The best bet is to contact a congressman where your mom resides and write to him/her. You should also follow-up with a phone call….they can do wonders…….
Good luck
January 31st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Thanks Nina I may do that latter on. But about 3 years ago I sent email to Hillary Clinton, Amnesty International, UN, CNN. I did not even get one reply.
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
One must remember that is what the rules are there for. I would suggest a letter from your mother’s personal physician, “physician, first heal thy self”… to present to the embassy… why haven’y you done that! Who do you think you are?
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Rules are there for? What, to keep family members seperated? Yes I tried a letter from a doctor, it did not work. A few days ago I contacted a few congresmen in NYC, no reply! Hey it is just not politically correct for them to get involved. Maybe the better question is who do they think they are!
February 5th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Dear Igor,
It’s me again……you need to have your mom contact the Congressman…..you will not get any response because you do not live in their district and they are not your Congressmen. I know I wrote to you to have your mom contact him/her and also her friends and neighbors who live in that district……they will have to respond to her and to her friends and neighbors because they are they ones who voted him/her in office. Also they should follow-up with phone calls. You know they don’t personally open their mail…they have aids and assistants…..the greasy wheel gets the grease!! Good luck!
February 27th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hi Igor
Sorry to learn about your visa troubles. Some of these sections must be changed.The world is a global village. These old restrictions must be aboloshed NOW!
May 10th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Igor would trade his right arm now for his right to be in the good ol’ USA. Yeah, sitting in Osaka with its stink-to-heaven population and being treated with respect one gives to a household fly is a damn unpleasant situation indeed. Yeah, this dude forfeited his right to be a US permanent resident through neglect and lack of self-discipline to timely renew his green card. Also, being a US counsalate official I suspect few other legitimate reasons why Igor Berger has been denied a chance to recieve US residenship status. Seems he has a petty criminal record or a history of recorded violent behaviour that would legitimately deny his acceptance for a legal residence status.
How sweet it is to be in the USA. With all its negatives its still a country to be in. Also, for all the English & Irish fuckers on this site (and perhaps a few Canadian maggots), US has much more to offer in terms of lifestyle, freedom and just plain humanity than all of your stinking, tax-burdened, and socialized societies which are sinking in a sea of third-world ghettos so much trumpeted by your BBC props. LOL, English cities have nothing to offer but chronic overpricing, paki-ghetto slums, overpriced food, shitty medical system, lack of space, lack of jobs, lack of resect, and most importantly lack of sun, etc…………..
May 10th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Dude, I do not want to immigrate to USA. I want to visit my mother who is in a nursing home now. She is sedated with some medicine and not able to move. She is being treated like a vegetable.
There is no need to renew green cards, but there was a requirement to be in USA one day a year which the government changed to three months a year. I was not aware of the change, but even if I was I was still working for my company in Japan and could not be in USA 3 months every year.
I gave up my green card voluntary because I could not go to court in USA to challenge the immigration decision.
The immigration staff in Hawaii told me that I must give up the green card because I do not reside in USA and I do not pay taxes in USA. There was no need for me to pay taxes, because I was earning money outside USA and was exempt for the amount earned.
As far as my petty criminality, it is really petty and it happened 25 years ago, when I was young and immature. The US State Department confirmed that this is not the reason to deny US visa. I have this as proof in a communicate from them to Osaka consulate.
I grew up in USA and I have nothing against America. I was educated there and came to Japan as a business man and worked hard to better my life. USA immigration taking away my green card was not done in a fare way. I was planing to come back and live in USA but seeing what America has become under George W. Bush I have lost total interest to immigrate back.
You are saying other countries are worse than USA and in someway you may be right. But USA has became very oppressive and condescending to its own people. USA foreign policy stinks.
You say you are a US consultant employee so maybe you can help me get a USA visa so I can visit my dieing mother, who is an American citizen. The US consultant in Osaka does not want to issue a visa for me because they are saying I will not come back to Japan. They do not see me as a person with Japanese residency even though I have live in Japan for 18 years. I am a permenent resident in Japan.
Last thing, please have respect for people and their opinions. People being European, Canadian, Israeli, Arab or from any other country have their way of living and need to be respected. It is not about America is number one. Being humble and recognizing the needs and opinions of people from other nations will make America a desired and respected country.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:03 am
“Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me yeah. Stayin’ alive…”
Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive
IB Q.
Dude, I do not want to immigrate to USA. I want to visit my mother who is in a nursing home now. She is sedated with some medicine and not able to move. She is being treated like a vegetable.
JD A.
Yeah, sure … Were you thinking of her when you left her in the first place when she was not a vegetable ? Instead, first thing you did was a trip to Hawaii with your slut-puppet. Were you thinking about your elderly momy back then or US existed for recreational use only ?
IB Q.
There is no need to renew green cards, but there was a requirement to be in USA one day a year which the government changed to three months a year. I was not aware of the change, but even if I was I was still working for my company in Japan and could not be in USA 3 months every year.
JD A.
Here you go buddy ! Of course, the company was more important than US. (laughing) What was on your mind back then ? Fuck US ? You had made it your personal choice that your company is more important then living in the states. You thought that US would bend backward and change the rules for Igor Berger ?
IB Q.
I gave up my green card voluntary ….
JD A.
Yeah sure, like you had control over it. (laugh)
IB Q.
I grew up in USA and I have nothing against America. I was educated there and came to Japan as a business man and worked hard to better my life.
JD A.
Thats right ! And I grew up in Freakonia and have nothing against Freakonians. I went to school there but had to travel to Japan on business…(wink) Sure thing dude, you followed your linguistically challenged slut-puppet and found yourself selling trinkets at Osaka junk market to freaky dyed-hair teenagers. However, you pompously twist the lingo here and create imaginary private “companies” whose real address is a smelly Osaka gutter.
IB Q.
I was planing to come back and live in USA but seeing what America has become under George W. Bush I have lost total interest to immigrate back
JD A.
LOL, this is hilarious… Yeah, you lost interest in USA because of George W Bush (big laugh). How can anyone else be more “transparent” than this. This is real melodrama ! Flowers and tears my dear.
IB Q. But USA has became very oppressive and condescending to its own people. USA foreign policy stinks.
JD A.
Here you go again Igor, stuffing your own foot into your mouth. As I have seen, you had wasted considerable amount of space here expounding the righteousness of Judaism and Israel’s right to exist, which goes in stark contradiction to your bashing of the greatest friend that Israel ever had - George W. Bush. GWB has been and continous to be the strongest supporter of Israel, in fact bigger than any other president in the history of the United States. Israel considers itself blessed by having such a friend and please do your research before you continue to post internet banalities.
As I have seen, your sorry attempts at explaining and defending Judaism is a shamefull list of painful half-truths, religious dogma and inflexible biblical proclamations that are mindlessly wooven into a context that is lacking in facts and ignores realities in a way similliar to the Taliban’s “thinkers” of the late 20th century. With all due respect, your Soviet-Jewish background (shaped by generations of atheist relatives) has “castrated” your soul from ever understanding the feelings of compassion and made you miss the universal spirit of religion by a wide margin. Like a late-life circumcision, your off-the-rack, pay-as-you-go religious business-like indoctrination into Judaism that was brought to you by your charlatan Rabbi must have been quite painfully “stretchy” experience. For you have learned nothing, but the exclusivity and superiority of one religion over the other and which you mindlessly simplifying with all inflexible Torah gibberish.
IB Q.
…Being humble and recognizing the needs and opinions of people from other nations will make America a desired and respected country.
JD A.
Yeah, you do really believe that US needs respect of the vagabonds at the Osaka flea market to do well in this world (laugh). Fuck yeah ! Fuck all the US achievements: fuck the trip to the moon, fuck WW2 and win in the Pacific, fuck the salvation from the Reds, fuck the polio vaccine, fuck the fucking of the Taliban, fuck Hemingway, Fuck Bob Dylan, fuck the beatnicks, fuck that most cancer research comes from US…
Hey, after all I want a Paki in my soup.
May 11th, 2008 at 6:48 am
JD, spoken like a True False Prophet!
JD, is Number One and Everyone Else is Shit!
JD, thinks he knows who IB is, but he has no idea!
JD, is a Fake!
JD, do I need to tell you about my life? Do I need to justify to you what I do and who is my family?
God is my judge not you!
Have a nice day.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:39 am
JD, thinks he knows who IB is, but he has no idea!….
Fuck yeah ! You spilled all your beans right here. Hold on… There is even a close-up of your “pretty”faced white-ass passport here. Hey look, get the id number… What is it ?
984…etc. Shhhh! George Bush is watching. Next time I need a separate passport to travel to Freakonia I will make just like the one above. Thanks IB.(wink).
JD, do I need to tell you about my life?
Fuck no, you already gave enough shit about it here.
JD, is a Fake
Hey IB, stop tripping man ! Shit, who the fuck you think spiking these words here ? Prophet fucking Isaiah?
May 12th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
JD, I know who you are! You lose, I win! So go back to your Beast!
May 21st, 2008 at 7:33 am
Hi Igor,
Very sad story!. I agree with the commenter from Britain. I live in Argentina and after the country’ s economy started recovering in 2003 after the implosion, suddenly the lines of people wanting to emigrate to the USA vanished. Now very very few people would like to emigrate to a society like the USA has become in the last 7 years.
A lot of people that did manage to emigrate, are coming back and say the pay is good, but they would just never “adjust” to the USA mindset.
Like the singer “Moby” (also from NY) said in a concert a couple years back when he was down here “America is becoming a dangerous right wing country”.
The rest of the so-called “developed world” isn’t looking much better either. I get news from relatives in Italy about the recent death of someone in a public park at the hands of right-wing “skinheads”. And there’s a general “anti-inmigration” attitude which blames all the country’s problems on foreigners. This is exploited, of course, by right wing politicians like Berlusconi. A real disgrace.
Yet, we continue receiving people from all places, and there’s a growing movement of USA expats active in Argentina. Many say they come down here to get back to the “simple life” and running away from the USA’s “political extremism”.
See here.
http://nymag.com/guides/changeyourlife/16047/
and here
http://yanquimike.blogspot.com/2007/01/not-bad-year-eh.html
If everything goes wrong, you’d be welcome down here, I’m sure.
Best,
FC
PS: I have linked you from my blog http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com
May 21st, 2008 at 7:41 am
I suggest James Dean reads this article:
America by the numbers: No. 1?
by Michael Ventura
http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp
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No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is “No. 1,” “the greatest.” Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name “America Is No. 1.” Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide.
In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled “un-American.” We’re an “empire,” ain’t we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We’re No. 1. Well…this is the country you really live in:
* The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
* The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
* Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).
* “The International Adult Literacy Survey…found that Americans with less than nine years of education ’score worse than virtually all of the other countries’” (Jeremy Rifkin’s superbly documented book The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, p.78).
* Our workers are so ignorant and lack so many basic skills that American businesses spend $30 billion a year on remedial training (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). No wonder they relocate elsewhere!
* “The European Union leads the U.S. in…the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (R&D) expenditures; and new capital raised” (The European Dream, p.70).
* “Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990s as the largest producer of scientific literature” (The European Dream, p.70).
* Nevertheless, Congress cut funds to the National Science Foundation. The agency will issue 1,000 fewer research grants this year (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004).
* Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28 percent last year. Foreign student enrollment on all levels fell for the first time in three decades, but increased greatly in Europe and China. Last year Chinese grad-school graduates in the U.S. dropped 56 percent, Indians 51 percent, South Koreans 28 percent (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004). We’re not the place to be anymore.
* The World Health Organization “ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]…37th.” In the fairness of health care, we’re 54th. “The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world” (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.
* “The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens” (The European Dream, p.80). Excuse me, but since when is South Africa a “developed” country? Anyway, that’s the company we’re keeping.
* Lack of health insurance coverage causes 18,000 unnecessary American deaths a year. (That’s six times the number of people killed on 9/11.) (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005.)
* “U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower” (The European Dream, p.81). Been to Mexico lately? Does it look “developed” to you? Yet it’s the only “developed” country to score lower in childhood poverty.
* Twelve million American families–more than 10 percent of all U.S. households–”continue to struggle, and not always successfully, to feed themselves.” Families that “had members who actually went hungry at some point last year” numbered 3.9 million (NYT, Nov. 22, 2004).
(big snip, to end with…)
No. 1? In most important categories we’re not even in the Top 10 anymore. Not even close.
The USA is “No. 1″ in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending, debt, and delusion.
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Regards
FC
May 21st, 2008 at 9:05 am
Fernando thanks for the input, you know what it is about.
I love South America. Been to Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru!
I speak good Spanish! Must have spent a few years in total, traveling south of American border.
We may bump into each other.
Viva El Che Guevara!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Since about a month ago my mother got Alzheimer’s and is in a nursing home fully sedated on tranquilizers like a vegetable.
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November 17th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
J.D. is a real consulate ass. Typical of the mind set of consulate officers. They claim to be well trained. Most could not even work at Mc,Cs flippen hamburgers.
My wife, a Chinese citizen was refused a visa to the USA. Reason who knows? We own property together in China. Since 2003 have transfered
over 100,000 to a chinese bank. The paper they gave her says we have no family relationship. ? Real crappy people at the Guanzhou consulate.
My bio is US navy 6 yeras. NO criminal history. College, 30 years working in transportation USA. My wife has no criminal history. grad. U. of Beijing.
Math teacher.
My wife does not ever want to be a citizen of the USA.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:29 am
It is a real shame!
Your wife can come to America if she gets a green card, but she is not interested. She just wants to visit.
America does not want people to visit, but it wants people to come to America and pay taxes.
That is why America as a country sinking. People with no brains or emotions are making decisions!