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To: frankw1900 who wrote (59729)	12/4/2002 11:46:20 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) of 281500

"Not everything can be left to the market," he said. "Law enforcement for example. Lord! Every policeman in Mexico is in business for himself." That, of course, was an unfair exaggeration but did lead to an interesting discussion. What's particularly ironic about this remark is that Mexico is in fact suffering from many decades of Communist one party rule -- that "ultimate stage of democracy" which is supposed to cure all the ills of leaving things to the market... I never thought of the legal difficulties of property ownership as the real source of problems such as you cite with Mexico, though this is certainly another symptom of Communism, with its legendary kilometers of "red tape" ( what other color could it be?)

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