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http://www.activistpost.com/2010/08/10-signs-us-is-becoming-third-world.html</p>

I can tell a CT'er wrote this from:

8. Devalued currency: The value of the Federal Reserve Note (U.S. dollar) has declined 96% since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913.

What a nonsensical, meaningless statement. Americans lived in a fundamentally dissimilar economy in 1913 compared to ours. The richest person in the world in 1913 couldn't have bought modern dental and health care for all the gold on the planet, because these goods and services didn't exist yet.

Yet I recently paid $10 in those evil Federal Reserve Notes for a 3 months' supply of the prescription drug Lisinopril, an ACE inhibitor, to lower my blood pressure. That gives me an enormous advantage over a billionaire in 1913 who could have died at my current age (50) from a stroke, heart attack or kidney failure because the primitive physicians of his time didn't understand the significance of elevated blood pressure and cholesterol, much less have any way to treat them.

If other words, wealth depends on our knowledge of how to use the available resources, not on the way we keep score with money.

Could equally be the UK one is talking about..

Considering where I live, we have cockroaches, raw sewage in the garden is not uncommon, regular power cuts, I eat on less than 50 cents a day (A packet of peanuts during the week, and tuna sandwhiches on the weekend.), jobs are an ever increasing difficult item to find, and I'm one of the lucky ones to have a roof over their head.(Even if the odd tile is missing and I have to fix it myself when it leaks..)

Its not actually that far from the truth..

Take my girlfriends recent sprained ankle, lucky for us we already had our own crutch for her, as the doctor complained bitterly about even coming to visit, then we had to make our own way to the hospital for an X-Ray (couldn't afford a taxi.), that then refused to admit her as a patient!

That had no wheelchair for her, and we was told to go home again and wait for our doctor to look at the X-Rays to see if it was broken or not..

Friends of ours fly to India to get better medical treatment, and the UK is supposed to not be a 3rd world country..

Even if we was offered subscription drugs here, we couldn't afford to pay for them.

Sure we have internet, but then my friend who lives in the countryside in Uganda has the internet too..