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To: arun gera who wrote (237585)	7/24/2007 4:16:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

You are surely right that it's good to be in good with the biggest customers. But even with all their money, the USA isn't such a huge deal. More important than the association with the strong is the ideology of the country concerned. New Zealand for example has gone down the gurgler over decades because of silly ideology, not because of actions by the strong [such as joining the EEC by Britain and the USA putting quotas on NZ products]. People can self-destruct at high speed. An association with the strong won't save them. It's most important to get one's own ideology right. The rest follows. Blaming others is common. Nearly all harm is self-harm. Success is self-success, less than having friends in high places. Friends in high places is the kleptocratic bludger mindset and people with it have limited success and countries which reward such people have a few wealthy people and are overall squalid. That's my theory anyway. My main problems have been my own mistakes. My successes have been my own achievements. Sure, Tiger Woods needs luck to win. But it's not luck which puts him in position ready to win when luck flows his way. Mqurice