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To: geode00 who wrote (191947)	7/18/2006 9:41:42 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

You think NK's strange, try Saudi Arabia with massive economic problems. The Saudi problem is more social than economic. They have millions of "educated" youths who have been studying conservative religious philosophy, and a 30% unemployment rate amongst them, while the government has to maintain some 7 million foreign workers to do the jobs those "philosophers" believe they are too good to do. arabicnews.com Then again the Iranians are sitting pretty well also. Iran has to import some 40% of all of their refined petroleum products. 70% of their population is under 25 years of age (or there abouts). And thus, they face the same demographic challenges to providing sufficient economic growth for their young adults: mees.com In Iran's case, the articles cites that the reason for the massive population growth was the government's emphasis on promoting having children so they could amass a 20 million man "revolutionary army", only discover that most of these young people are more secular than revolutionary, and have little desire to serve in the Iranian army. Hawk

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