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Politics : The Arab-Israeli Solution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (553)	5/21/2001 12:38:31 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2279

Much of the improvement has been driven by government fiat. Any policy imposed by "fiat" has to be supported by wealth derived from the underlying economy. And that wealth is Hong Kong. And do you know the difference between Communism and Fascism? Because we're seeing China in transition from the former to the latter. From Benito Mussolini's definition of Fascism: "...The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone.... fordham.edu The State "imposing" a financial market, rather than letting it develop naturally, falls directly within the parameters of Fascism. Hawk