Response to Isis---Egypt,Cairo, Sharm, Broken Heart, visa, scam

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Dec 15, 2008 at 19:38

1. I read on another site Luigi that you were an environmental scientist.

That's what I am going to school for. I've worked for the government and the UN as an environmental scientist, and I am an independent marketing agent for the travel business just for extra cash on the side.

2. Could you please explain how a 3rd world country struggling to keep its economy alive can possibly afford to pay their citizens money to keep quiet?

I thought you would know since you supposedly travel to Egypt for long periods to do business? Must not be THAT bad there if your employer sees some kind of a market there? Hm, interesting contradiction there.

Actually, there are extreme variations in the Egyptian economy from say the luxury treatment talked about on here at Red Sea resorts like Sharm to the slums of Cairo.

Workers are bribed or they pretty much know that they will lose their job if the start quarreling with the Western tourists. Broken Heart touched on this when she went out with that Moroccan bus driver. Happy to greet the travelers on the job, but he revealed his true feelings about Westerners to her.

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