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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: average joe who wrote (42250)11/30/2005 10:06:07 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
So your thesis is that a single incident of a Cabinet Secretary accepting a bribe is equivalent to a Kleptocratic government?

ROTFL (not with you)

RE: "Economies with little economic production other than resource extraction are almost universally the least free economies. It is the situation most conducive to corruption. One powerful leader can award resource allocations to cooperative parties."

You may have forgotten about the Oil For Food scandal.
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