Had you known seven years ago what George Dubbaya would do in government and known that about Al Gore, which would you have preferred? No matter how poor you are, no offence or rudeness intended, but its always better to be poor than to be dead.
On the other hand, I hate both. Because of the aforementioned reasons. Such labour should be against the law, for any company based in America. Or anywhere, for that matter. Companies avoid rules by registering in other countries, like shipping companies. What we should do is ban any company, American, Irish, British or Martian, from selling anything in whatever country they do business without a guarantee that no child labour or poorly paid labour was used.
Gore is the lesser of two evils. Or at least he was November 2000.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller