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I know a lot of people on RDP are familiar with my wife's story, but I am sure there are a few that are not and with elections coming up I thought this would be a good time to share again. I have two quick stories of people who escaped communist countries and made a life here in the good ol US of A!
First off a little about Laos. Laos is a beautiful country but screwed up politically. It is a one-party socialist republic, espousing Marxism–Leninism governed by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, under which non-governmental organizations have routinely characterized the country's human rights record as poor, citing repeated abuses such as torture, restrictions on civil liberties, and persecution of minorities.
My wife escaped Laos with her family when she was three years old and not too long after the Vietnam war. She lived in refugee camps in Vietnam and Thailand with rationed food, dirt floors in makeshift tents for four years until she was seven years old. Eventually after going through all the legal and correct channels they made it to the United States. Neither one of her parents or the six children spoke a word of English but they learned fast. Her father was in the Laos military and was accepted in to the US military for certain duties requiring someone who spoke Laoation. They made a good life for themselves with very little help in Washington. Both her mother and father worked for a potato company until this very day. Basically my wife is everything the liberals pander to, female, immigrant, minority. But with no help from anyone she put herself through school and now has three degrees, speaks three languages and is a lead consultant for Workday the cloud based finance, HR and planning system that is used by everyone from Netflix to Harvard. She could never understand why anyone in their right mind would want to vote in anything remotely related socialism or communism.
Cuba. I really shouldn't have to fill you in much on Cuba and that asshole Castro. haha.
One of my recent customers escaped Cuba and came here with nothing. He eventually opened up a jewelry store, and married his wife who is now a pediatrician. They own multiple offices, have a 2mill dollar home in Henderson and two great kids that are amazing at everything they do. He flies the American flag every day and is as conservative as you can get. He told me when he came to the US and he walked into a grocery store it was like Christmas. He says that was his first memory, going in to a store and seeing food on the shelves and he could't believe you didn't have to wait in line for a few eggs and some bread.
First off a little about Laos. Laos is a beautiful country but screwed up politically. It is a one-party socialist republic, espousing Marxism–Leninism governed by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, under which non-governmental organizations have routinely characterized the country's human rights record as poor, citing repeated abuses such as torture, restrictions on civil liberties, and persecution of minorities.
My wife escaped Laos with her family when she was three years old and not too long after the Vietnam war. She lived in refugee camps in Vietnam and Thailand with rationed food, dirt floors in makeshift tents for four years until she was seven years old. Eventually after going through all the legal and correct channels they made it to the United States. Neither one of her parents or the six children spoke a word of English but they learned fast. Her father was in the Laos military and was accepted in to the US military for certain duties requiring someone who spoke Laoation. They made a good life for themselves with very little help in Washington. Both her mother and father worked for a potato company until this very day. Basically my wife is everything the liberals pander to, female, immigrant, minority. But with no help from anyone she put herself through school and now has three degrees, speaks three languages and is a lead consultant for Workday the cloud based finance, HR and planning system that is used by everyone from Netflix to Harvard. She could never understand why anyone in their right mind would want to vote in anything remotely related socialism or communism.
Cuba. I really shouldn't have to fill you in much on Cuba and that asshole Castro. haha.
One of my recent customers escaped Cuba and came here with nothing. He eventually opened up a jewelry store, and married his wife who is now a pediatrician. They own multiple offices, have a 2mill dollar home in Henderson and two great kids that are amazing at everything they do. He flies the American flag every day and is as conservative as you can get. He told me when he came to the US and he walked into a grocery store it was like Christmas. He says that was his first memory, going in to a store and seeing food on the shelves and he could't believe you didn't have to wait in line for a few eggs and some bread.