http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/09/one-laptop-per-child-low-cost-computers-given-to-children-in-developing-countries/ Follow FOX News reporters and producers around the globe to get raw, behind-the-scenes access to the stories making headlines. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/09/one-laptop-per-child-low-cost-computers-given-to-children-in-developing-countries/#comment-11647 Kevin, PA Mon, 12 May 2008 09:55:27 +0000 http://foxtracker.wordpress.com/?p=807#comment-11647 What makes us think we're not living in a "third world" country?...with a dwindling number of people with any affluence, government workers with better wages than the people they supposedly serve, close to 60 million people without the ability to see a doctor, a skyrocketing illegitimacy rate, rampant illiteracy, an inflation rate of roughly 11.6% (if determined the same way they did before 1993, when they started messing with it to hide the true inflation rate), and fuel costs so high that, at least where I live, people are turning back to wood to heat their houses, it sure seems to me we're being groomed to be a bunch of "third world" pesants...how can you blame schools for using "third world" programs to get computors into the hands of their destitute children? What makes us think we’re not living in a “third world” country?…with a dwindling number of people with any affluence, government workers with better wages than the people they supposedly serve, close to 60 million people without the ability to see a doctor, a skyrocketing illegitimacy rate, rampant illiteracy, an inflation rate of roughly 11.6% (if determined the same way they did before 1993, when they started messing with it to hide the true inflation rate), and fuel costs so high that, at least where I live, people are turning back to wood to heat their houses, it sure seems to me we’re being groomed to be a bunch of “third world” pesants…how can you blame schools for using “third world” programs to get computors into the hands of their destitute children?

]]> http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/09/one-laptop-per-child-low-cost-computers-given-to-children-in-developing-countries/#comment-11564 Carol Wright Sat, 10 May 2008 18:51:35 +0000 http://foxtracker.wordpress.com/?p=807#comment-11564 How about furnishing laptops to American kids that can't afford them before sending everything out of our country? How about furnishing laptops to American kids that can’t afford them before sending everything out of our country?

]]> http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/09/one-laptop-per-child-low-cost-computers-given-to-children-in-developing-countries/#comment-11549 P Dillow Sat, 10 May 2008 16:40:45 +0000 http://foxtracker.wordpress.com/?p=807#comment-11549 Why are we giving foreign children computers that we haven't even given our own children? Where I live they just cut $30 million from our schools budget. Shouldn't we be helping our own kids before we help another country's. America needs to stop trying to help others and help ourselves first. Why are we giving foreign children computers that we haven’t even given our own children? Where I live they just cut $30 million from our schools budget. Shouldn’t we be helping our own kids before we help another country’s. America needs to stop trying to help others and help ourselves first.

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