Its been 6 months in a third world country.  I was starting to think to myself why is this place still in third world status?  I took a look around and make a few simple observations, and compared to my cushy life in Canada, and realized why.
Paving the road.
India - When the road is broke, fix it.  The asphalt was destroyed by the rains and millions of tires constantly rolling over.  So finally today a large piece of what I call the mine field was re-paved.
They have the big paving machine and they have asphalt, so they paved two nice rows down the middle.  The edges of the road were left alone, between one and three meters of road are still the same as before and whatever was underneath was simply paved over. 
Simple. 
Why bother scraping the broken road? 
Why bother paving all the way to the edge?
I guess that is makes up a third world country.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
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You are correct in your estimations methinks. The West will pay eventually for our decadent and frivolous lifestyles. Hopefully our day of reckoning will come in our lifetimes so I will be able to say, "see, you should have listened to us more rather than the almighty dollar which has brought you to your own destruction."
Cheers.
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