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To: kingfisher who wrote (22781)	9/19/2007 5:59:41 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217574

now that maestro al greensputin has spoken, we can take the contrary position and rest easy, since the man is an all-knowing fool

To: kingfisher who wrote (22781)	9/19/2007 6:37:16 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217574

The strength of the US is not the constitution! It is the strengths of the Robber Barons! It is the guys who go out in front and try the new, sometimes assaulting the law here and there. It is guys who built monopolies that later on had to be dismantled! It is guys who went out and bought good behavior of dictators! Those who used deception and who devised coup d'etats. Those are the heroes that must be sung! Those are the strengths that built the US. Of course it is necessary to teach the elementary school kids talking about constitution and all that

To: kingfisher who wrote (22781)	9/19/2007 1:14:00 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217574

Mr. Marcus Gee writes: Greenspan acknowledges de Soto in his book, so I think he's in the clear. Marcus Gee -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ] Sent: Wed 19/09/2007 6:49 AM To: Gee, Marcus Subject: Greenspan Plagiarism de Soto explained in his 1986 book The Other Path, these de facto owners were locked out of the formal, legal economy—and that was the root of the problem. "They have houses but not titles; crops but not deeds; businesses but not statutes of incorporation." Compare with what Greenspan wrote: Mr. Greenspan notes that despite three decades of reform, Chinese farmers still do not own the land they till. They can lease it and take their produce to market, a huge improvement over the days of Mao-era collective farms, but they cannot buy or sell it or use it as collateral to secure a loan. This handicap - a lack of access to capital - keeps hundreds of millions of peasants trapped in poverty on the farm while the urban middle-class thrives. "Granting legal title to peasant land could, with the stroke of the pen, substantially narrow the wealth gap between urban and rural residents," Mr. Greenspan writes. As it is, there are thousands of protests in China every year, many of them by peasants evicted from their land for urban expansion or factory construction. Thsi is plagiarism. Perhaps he he's eyeing a couple of hundred million Chinese going subprime!