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Indians and other South Asians come to this country for its opportunity.

You think it was free to come here? These people packed up their entire lives to come here, paying for a number of airline tickets, paying enough to get a Dunkin Donuts franchise, enough to buy or rent a building to house it in, etc. If you gave those poor Americans the same amount of money, they'd have the same opportunities.

Just as an example, the Subway franchise seems to be the foreigner franchise of choice down here. This link claims a Subway can be opened for "as little as $87,300", and goes on to comment that "costs are so low". You think those poor families have $87,300 lying around? The Dunkin Donuts franchise web site says "For Dunkin' Donuts store territories, minimum liquid assets is $650-750K and net worth of $1.2 - $1.5million depending on the markets. Some markets require a minimum number of units developed." They certainly don't have that kind of scratch.

Of course, none of this means that there aren't people out there that have no desire to improve themselves. Many of us have the ability to coast along and not be poor, but many don't.


New arrival to the US:

1) Sell everything and leave everything you know and come to America

2) Go magorly in debt to by a crappie little shop

3) Sleep in the back room of the shop when not working 20 hours a day to keep it going. Try to learn, on the fly, how to operate a business in a country you’re not familiar with.

4) After working for years finally move out of the back room to an apartment.

5) Maybe someday make something for yourself before you die


Current USA poor resident

1) Live in a apartment - provided free by the government

2) Have no worries of going hungry – food stamps provided by the government

3) Free heath care at the local clinic - provided by the government

4) Free welfare money. Also, more kids, more money, so have a lot – money provided by the government

5) Free holiday gifts and food – provided by local free stores

6) Have all day free to hang out at the corner drinking a 40

Most people don’t want to decrease their standard of living so taking out a loan, living in the back room, working hard, why bother.

However, back on subject, maybe the guy that ripped off the hair clippers will sart his own business and he did him a favor by not taking him down


Edited by Redrum (05/12/2006 17:18)