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To: Mannie who wrote (59070)	1/17/2005 5:42:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Airline tickets for flight within the country are one price for Vietnamese (of any citizenship), and twice that cost for anyone else.. And yes, I have witnessed a person's level of Vietnameseness negotiated with various officials and ticketing agents.> Accompanied by suitable bribes? I'm sure they'd allow that I was Vietnamese with a good-enough bribe. The answer of course is to not make cheap prices for racially-pure Vietnamese, but to make citizenship a tradeable commodity and open the markets. It's interesting as a foreigner to see how the quaint, poverty-stricken, local yokels do things - provided one has an escape hatch back to civilization. But it would be better if they weren't poverty-stricken. I've advocated a similar thing in NZ. My golf course is full! There are too many foreigners on it. I say charge NZ citizens [show us your passport] a cheap price and foreigners and non-members a fortune. Because it's a non-profit golf club, incorporated society I suppose, members can't pay themselves dividends. It's a dopey communist system. That's the silly sort of idea that has to be invented to ration short supplies in such situations. People try to charge the wealthy more all over the place. Vietnam's airfares are apparently just more of the same. Gouge the foreigners. Rightly so too. They didn't pay for the roads, water supplies, etc, etc, etc, etc. Put tolls on everything! Mqurice