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To: LKO who wrote (58143)	1/3/2005 6:23:59 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

LKO, on "electing incompetent people" 1) Some countries can afford to elect incompetent people for a certain period (Japan, US, Europe) 2) Level of incompetence varies. Africans have no competent people to choose from. In Brazil, for instance, governing elites have perfected a system that is extremely difficult to elect someone competent from the outside. After 500 years the system barring outsides is flawless. In the US, the going was so good, but so good, that the guy needs only to know how to talk in front of a microphone, have the right looks, and be able to talk for two years with boring people to be elected. In Europe, competence, is the guy promise to not to touch the special interest and keep the subsidies in place. But the level of incompetence in Indonesia is ABSOLUTE level of incompetence. Look to Malaysia's Mahatir, he was competent. Look to Thailand's Thaksin, he's competent. Look to the Chinese since 1978, they've shown competence. Maggie Thatcher was competent. The Spanish guy before Aznar was competent. We can't say Canada's Brian Mahoney was competent. Look to Helmuth Kohl, who missed the best chance to reform Germany, incompetence!! Argentina's Menem? Incompetence!! In the case of Indonesia it was a case of someone raising to the occasion to take the country out of thre nose dive. But they have only elected the wrong type of leaders.