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[QUOTE]Originally posted by homeagain: [QB] Luxorlover after reading all the statements, I kind of agree with Carleen that your tone is somewhat anti-american. After learning from the maniac that you are not even Egyptian, it's interesting to know that the US has provided 45 Billion dollars in AID to Egypt in the past 26 years, this is far more than British has provided. When the cruise ship was bombed in middle Egypt, this put a damper on the tourist income the country was used to receiving, there were not just Americans on that cruise ship, yet the U.S. provided Aid to lighten the burden of lower tourist dollars. Furthermore American embassies are designed to protect the interests of American taxpayers, who do you think are funding those billions? These are bilateral agreements that strengthen relations in both countries and both countries benefit. We are not there to protect one nation "from" the other, if that's what you are implying. Are the many Egyptian embassies in the U.S. here to protect Egyptians from Americans? I think you know better. I'm sorry that you didn't have the opportunity to earn my salary in your lifetime, but that does not mean that I should apologize for how I earn a living. Actually I don't earn $60,000 a year when living in the states. I pointed out that $2500 was a housing allowance, if the cost to have the same accomodations that I enjoy in America had only cost $500 a month, then that's all my housing allowance would have been. I'm just trying pointing out that one of the incenives of attracting civil service workers abroad is to ensure the same accomodations that would be provided in the states at whatever costs. As Katrina pointed out, it's all comparative. Which is why my housing allowance fluctuates depending on the American comparative accomodations in foreign lands. I don't even receive a $2500 housing allowance in the Washington D.C. area, because the cost of a 3 bedroom apartment here is only $1500/month. If I was working in my hometown of Charlotte, NC, the allowance would only be $900 month, as that is the cost of living in a modern 3 bedroom home there. Do you understand what I am expressing to you? It is not the amount of money per se, but rather the assuarance of all the modern conveniences we would have in the states. If for example, your country sent you to a country where everyone lives in straw homes, does it mean that you have to live in a straw home to complete your assignment? Would you accept the assignment if you would be lowering your living standards? I doubt it, this is a job assignment, not a back-packing adventure. Again if it only cost $300/month to live the same way I would live in the states, then that's what my housing allowance would have been, I don't know why this is so difficult to understand. Homelessagain, if you have no problem adopting a simplistic form of living, then you will be fine off $900 a month, and that would also depend on your family size, or if you have school aged children that you want to receive an American curriculum. As no certified American school teacher would go to work in Egypt for the same salary the Egyptian teachers are paid. It is a developing country, is that the Americans fault? No. Is our government assisting them in their development for the benefit of both countries? Yes. Should foreign teachers apologize for their salaries? No. Should Egyptians blame Americans for their salaries? NO. A lot of people are anti-American these days, but Americas is not responsible for all the woes of the world. Sometimes you must look at your own government. Yes we give them billions in aid, should they decide to spend the greater portion on their military rather than education is not greatly influenced by us. Also while we were living in Egypt we lived side by side with a lot of Natives enjoying the same modern lifestyle. There is huge income divide amongst the middle class and working class, and that is not our fault either. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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