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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (46782)	2/28/2004 7:27:58 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<Does the place rock?>> Brazil does.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (46782)	2/29/2004 4:04:24 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<Singapore comes closest to a small business model. The place is clean, has a good transportation system, and many of it's citizens are productive. But when did Singapore give us any advances to civilization? Does the place rock? Who wants to live in Singapore?> Mary, Singapore, from what I know, is a very nice place to live in and vastly improved over 40 years ago. Singapore has certainly enhanced life in New Zealand by being a centre for production of all sorts of goods and services. Singapore Airlines provides a great airline service. There are refineries and all sorts of things done in Singapore. I don't think I like places which "rock". I suspect I'd quite like living in Singapore [though I prefer cities higher above sea level to avoid most tsunamis]. I'm not suggesting anyone model society after my musings. I'm just suggesting an improved way of selling the society which people have chosen to produce. Instead of simply giving it away to anyone who busts in, or gets through our silly bureaucratic filter, I say sell citizenship to the highest bidder. It would be interesting to see what prices would do and how electorates would act if they could instantly see the result on the bid/ask. When Vodafone was bidding for AT&T Wireless, people were closely watching the Vodafone share price, which dropped as the bidding proceeded and jumped back up when they "lost" to Cingular. That showed what shareholders thought of the idea. Singapore doesn't have graffiti, which is another nice aspect of it. They caned an American punk who thought he could take his vandalistic cultural norms to the civilized world. So that was an advance to civilization which they showed the USA. The USA could learn a thing or two from Singapore. Mqurice