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Politics : War -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (4685)	9/26/2001 1:15:06 AM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

How much wealth is a billionth of India, China etc ? If a GDP grows by 2% and the birth rate by 2.2%, any country becomes poor. If you add inflation, within a generation an average country goes into misery. Knowledge takes more than one generation to infuse, but right : hard work is ready out there. Now we all wish, hope the rest of the world will become as rich as the Us is today. But without the energy consumption, it is impossible, and with the same level of it (take out heating) is outrageous. No geology, not enough land for agriculture, and where these conditions meet : Congo Angola, war is out almost since independence. ( I almost forgot Irak : lots of water, oil and fair enough people, but there is a but(t) to be kicked first. Now this does not apply to Russia that has it all, same level as the US. They just need time, a lot of it, no big political mistake like the one they had, and almost no corruption. So who are the gifted ones ? Again the white ones (read rose). Unfair ? Does it really matter ? OT : I have read hundred of posts of yours throughout the last year on many si, semis etc. Learned much, thanks.