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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (46791)2/29/2004 12:19:41 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Maurice,
<<< I'm just suggesting an improved way of selling the society which people have chosen to produce. Instead of simply giving it away to anyone who busts in, or gets through our silly bureaucratic filter, I say sell citizenship to the highest bidder.>>>

Probabilities are what you are suggesting does not have any chance of working, but more importantly it is bad policy.

You are suggesting that people who built the country get a chance to double dip. Presumably those that developed and built the country were adequately compensated. You are now suggesting these people are to get some kind of residual rights to their efforts even though it was not in the original contract.

What you will end up with under your suggestions would be all the criminal elements coming into your country and laundering their money. All the Columbian drug lords, Russian Mafia, Overseas Chinese money lenders, and perhaps some decent retirees with their blue hair.

What you really want are hungry young people coming to your country with just the shirts on their backs and willing to do anything to have a chance at a new life. Chances are, they are likely to rejuvenate your society and create new opprtunities. They will most likely remake your society - so that it doesn't die out from having the same old people that have been there, done that, and want to pay others to do their dirty work. Lotsa luck.

Mary
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