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To: JohnM who wrote (32258)	6/13/2002 12:49:48 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

While I think few would quarrel with this, Paul, the problem seems to me to be just how to get from here to there. True. Mao has this much to teach us on the subject, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". I gather from some of the qualifiers in your sentences that you mean an economy not so reliant on oil and one with a better distribution of rewards--growing middle class, economic gains less concentrated among the elite. Income distribution and elites are words I would be unlikely to use. I would say a system of property rights, a system of laws and a relatively free market. I think we want the same thing though. Particularly when the US is going in the opposite direction, that is more wealth concentrated at the top. Heaven forbid that Saudi Arabia was inflicted with the standard of living of the US. I would love to play statistical games with you about trends in income distribution in the US but that is the tail wagging the dog. Paul