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To: TobagoJack who wrote (14261)	2/11/2007 12:52:18 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218439

OECD Economies have profited from a set of circumstance that no longer exist. How can explain this to the French and German worker? How can you teach this today to the university student of London or Madrid? Teach this and you have 1968 that will make the intifada look like a picnic! See the riots in Hungary when the public discovered the government lied to them Witness the 2005 riots of the unemployable youth that has no future. Siemens and Germany is my lab. A system geared for protecting all stake holders is a fine balance act. Add a political system based on consensus and you have a system that goes down without any possibility of change to adapt. All the stakeholders share the outcome but only a few % know how the system really works. That's the danger. A Mexico, a China or a Brazil is easier to fix. First there are so many things wrong that junking a little of them can cause a big positive impact. Second the pain is so big that people accept the changes without many discussions, because they are bordering despair. Third they have so many capabilities not being used, that a little freedom given can cause big positive impact too. Example: China opening for capital Brazil's privatization of banks and telecoms. Any change in an OECD country, needs to touch everything and everybody. There are so many vested interests that anyone will fear they lose with any change. This pain is caused by: equality, participative democracy and perceptions. Perception because it is unimaginable for the normal guy to see what TJ sees. An OECD country, the guy sees only possibility to go down. In a poor country there is room only to go up since they are already in the bottom of the well.