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To: TimF who wrote (261158)	4/10/2008 11:19:33 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You misunderstood me on both points. >> 1 - Poor people survive economic disruption better than wealthy people. Wrong. My argument is that it takes less money for poor people to remain below rebellion threshold. In some countries people can endure hardship with 10k per year. In other places it will prompt outright revolution. You don't mind this argument when it is used to justify Pentagon's massive waste compared to say China's, but you are objecting to the flip side of the same coin. >> 2 - Socialist systems cope with dynamically changing conditions better than capitalist systems. Wrong again. Any totalitarian regime is better equipped to deal with sudden social emergencies than a democracy...or else Saddam would have been overthrown long ago. Democracies do better during peace time or at least during periods of gradual change.