[Buddha-l] Obituary on Vietnam UBCV Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang

[Richard Hayes]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:32 -0600, jkirk wrote:


> "We can see that Vietnam's economic development has brought some
> improvements. But at the same time, the poverty gap is rocketing.
> This is not just the gap between rich and poor, but the gulf
> between the rulers and the ruled."
> 
> Doesn't this ring a bell here in the USA?
> Joanna

There you go again, Joanna, saying negative things about your home and
native land. Sure, poverty is increasing rapidly in the United States,
but don't forget we have a humane solution to the problem of poverty in
this country. We put the poor in prison.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico