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To: KyrosL who wrote (12460)	12/14/2006 4:07:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217669

Land is the primary means by which governments and their electorates can retain a serf base. People without fixed assets are hard to pin down. They leave and live in other countries which welcome and protect them and their capital. Increasingly, governments around the world are recognizing that their deadbeat supporters are losing their productive serfs to better economic circumstances in more libertarian societies [not that such a thing exists - some are just less bad than others]. Buying land is voting to be a serf. One of these days, there will be tradable citizenships and proper protection of property rights and then things will really get moving in the right direction. The clamouring to get aboard will be immense. The world of women having 10 children, conquest, territorial wealth through agricultural and found wealth [gold, oil, trees, etc] is nearly over. That all made sense then. It is part of our chimpoid roots and has no place in the 21st century though some rear-guard actions are still to take place and are doing so. Being a patriotic state serf still makes sense to people who are imbued with those cultural norms from their recent history and family. Mqurice