yes, it is all about media manipulation by a small number of companies. ANYTHING sensational is "news"....and it can't be sensational with out a bit of puffery (stretching of the truth)....Brina Williams anyone??

many of these places are not what they seem...3rd world countries (and admittedly, I have never been to a 3rd world...but have seen a number of pretty poor ones) normal living is so FAR out of most of our experience, it can SEEM to be these hyper inflated, BS stories.

We send I can't tell you how many tons of clothes (stuff no one will wear here) over there for large profits....take a look at any of the "clothes drop off" companies...anything they cannot resell here, gets shipped out over there.

Gotta love the media bullSH%^ING you.