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To: elmatador who wrote (3155)1/7/2006 4:50:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217877
 
Good book by the sound of it. "Manual for the Perfect Latin American Idiot" Translated into English, it would have a ready market here, and we could use it! So could most countries.

Perhaps the century-long wishful thinking of communism, socialism, and hippie-dom communes will be finally buried.

The fact is that some people are useless, lazy, thieving, indolent, incompetent, dishonest, stupid, greedy, spendthrift, clueless wastrels and they will always be in poverty. They cannot be raised above poverty by taking money and things away from people who are the opposite. They will simply destroy those efforts too.

Mqurice



To: elmatador who wrote (3155)1/7/2006 11:00:26 PM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217877
 
The success of various Asian nations at raising themselves from Poverty to Affluence is an existence proof that Latin America is not trapped forever.

About 10 years ago, there was a book by Henry DeSoto on why most of the Thrid world was remaining poor - no property rights, massive over regulation, etc.

Chile, Costa Rica, and now Brazil to some degree can be models.


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