Financial Ruin Quotes
The Scientology cult operates much like a secret society. One of their practices was to try and keep all their literature secret—to members only. When former members started releasing the material, the Scientologists would sue them. The Scientologists have tried to expunge this quotation as it demonstrates the aggressive, litigious strategy of the cult which purports to be a religion.
The German reunification cost the West German citizens $1.9 Trillion over 20 years. East Germany was well behind West Germany in standard of living. However comparing South Korea—a very comfortable middle class society—with North Korea—an economic primitive basket case—produces a gap that is much wider, For example, East German infrastructure was not as well developed as West German infrastructure. North Korea has virtually no real infrastructure except a military one.
Hoovervilles were camps of people who lived in city parks or empty land. Tar paper shacks sheltered some—others lived in boxes. People had no work and no prospects of work; they had no money for rent; they just lived a meager existence as best they could under conditions that today exist only in the third world. They were named Hoovervilles for the President at the time whose ineptness and philosophy simply let things deteriorate. Republicans were critical of many of Roosevelt’s economic policies, but the president would periodically remind them and the nation of what the situation was when the Republicans last ran the country.
