>Think there should be more respect with our fellow developers and their countries. Political blindness is no excuse for disrespect, IMHO.

You mean like this post of yours?:

"I like tracy's idea! Just think some other "resolutions" should be added to her list:

1. Make americans citizens do the durty work 3rd world people are doing instead of them;
2. Bring back all poisoning industries americans don't want in their country;
3. Start getting from their own soil all the goods they don't want to extract and/or produce;
4. Start burnning the bilions of dollar$ they get interest from other countries, and think what to do with all running money fund$;
5. Start smashing all goods they export - from Mc Donnalds to Boing jets (there will be no market outside the US for them);
6. Start learning how to make fine wines and other fantastic goods they currently import from Europe;
7. Start a war inside the US to keep the weapons industry running, and the level of employment high;
8. Find jobs for all military (currently outside US) and to all folks that got unenployed by resolution #7 above;
9. Build a dome around Hawaii and a tunnel to Alaska ...and Israel;
10. Reinvent supply & demand law (perhaps Newton's gravity law too <vbg>);
11. Let other live and let them die in peace <s>"