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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (108478)	4/29/2000 12:34:00 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571177

OT RE: Tenchusatsu, I will have to second you on this one. People who whine about government should maybe from time to time look around the world and see how business gets conducted when the government gets, shall we say, non-interventionist. It isn't pretty, you can start with Russia, which is pretty bad, and move on to a lot of places that are much, much worse. The U.S. is closer to the idealized Randian utopia than anyplace else I can think of off hand, aside from a few Grand Cayman - type places that could never defend themselves if push came to shove. I can see that other places are worse, it doesn't mean I don't want the US to improve. Even the best can often still get better. As for the comparison with Russia, Russia has a bad government, even a criminal governement but it is hardly a government that supports a strong free market. Russias government is full of taxes and regulations, as well as curuption that all gets in the way of legitmate business. The fact that criminal orginizations get around these things doesn't make Russia a bastion of free market capitalism. Tim