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To: TimF who wrote (320153)	1/11/2007 2:20:09 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573433

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. On the contrary, they make perfectly good sense. S. Americans are moving towards socialism because democracy by and in itself has failed them. They have been electing the very same rich people who have controlled their countries economically for decades if not centuries. Those rich leaders have manipulated democracy in order to increase their wealth and not the wealth of the people who have elected them. Hence, S. Americans are putting in leaders who are more like them....'Lulu' in Brazil, a union man, and in, I think, Peru or Bolivia an Amerindian who also is a union man. The hope is they will institute reforms that will insure the little guy gets a bigger piece of the economic action. You know.......that issue we've been discussing.......about the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor which ultimately can lead to revolution. Read those articles I posted to you......they explain it in greater detail.