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To: TobagoJack who wrote (9940)	10/8/2006 11:10:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218633

TJ, the Roman highways across Europe cost a fortune to build and they ran chariots on them. I watched Indians make roads by hand, with individually, hand-broken and hand-placed stones as foundations. With suitable cash flow forecasts, they can simply buy the latest Caterpillar or Komatsu equipment, study some civil engineering, then fill the country with superconductor powered highways. They have the cash flow. Same with watts and anything else. They step straight into the 21st century. No chariots, no hand-placed stones, no pick and shovel [as I have wielded], no twisted pair, no $1,000 analogue cellphone - straight to the $200 super-turbocharged phragmented photon cyberphone. No abacus or meat grinder mechanical calculator, or circular slide rule - straight to the $5 scientific function calculator/computer. Sure, it takes a few years to build nuclear power stations, so not everything happens overnight. But 10 years is a long time for an unleashed economic system. I don't buy the "50 years" for China to become merely poor instead of poverty-stricken. But the social crushing lack of freedom will stifle them. I am NOT thinking of exposing myself too heavily to their wanton ways. Heck, I was warned against writing certain things in SI in case you got into trouble with the maniacal monsters running the place. Not that that is a criticism of them. It's a compliment. They are economic and ethical monsters, absolute giants, striding heroically across the world stage, seriously, even maniacally, selflessly in favour of The People and the success of the people. Mqurice