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To: tejek who wrote (319854)	1/10/2007 3:18:02 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573429

Brazil has its own form of socialism and is also doing very well economically. Funny you should bring up Brazil. The inequality of wealth distribution in Brazil is much worse than in the US. Is Brazilian democracy about to collapse? If not, I guess the US has nothing to worry about regarding the unequal distribution of wealth and corresponding threat to democracy, wouldn't you say?

To: tejek who wrote (319854)	1/11/2007 1:55:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573429

Brazil is less socialist then it has been at certain times in its past. Chile is less socialist then the majority of, perhaps than all of, its neighbors, and a lot of its success in recent times has been because of the extent that a free market has been allowed to operate. The fact that a country can do well with a bit of socialism isn't in dispute. You accept it, and I accept it. SilentZ was arguing that the socialism helped the countries economically and using South America as an example. That argument doesn't make much sense, and your examples of Brazil, and esp. Chile, do nothing to strengthen it.