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To: elmatador who wrote (69218)	5/9/2008 12:19:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

I have been to China, India, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa = all poor countries at the time though China was rapidly gaining ground and Turkey was heading for better things. Those places have small revenue to food ratios, near 1 for hordes of people. Africa particularly so. I don't need to go to places to get such knowledge about them. Cyberspace has lots of data. The ratio is largely a function of brain power. You can see the schedule of countries in Griffe du Lion's analysis using his Smart Fraction Theory II link I have given a few times. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (69218)	5/9/2008 3:50:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The problem in Africa isn't the food. Here's the problem: lagriffedulion.f2s.com Scroll down to see the predicted versus actual GDP per capita by country. Note how Singapore has the highest predicted per capita GDP in the world but not quite the highest in reality. Note how New Zealand should be very near the richest, but due to socialist bludger mentality it's poorer than it should be [it has slid a long way from 50 years ago]. Africa could have done better by remaining colonized by Great Britain. After WWI and WWII of course, Britain wasn't in much state to run an empire. Local kleptocratic thugs were able to take over very easily and ruin the place. Look at India for example. Visit places like Mysore which very obviously had quite a heyday a century ago, but everything fell into disrepair when the British left, and little new was built. In 1997, there was more construction equipment in Auckland than in the whole of India. The best thing Africa could do is apply to be colonized by the USA, or even China if the USA won't have them. So far, it seems they will become servants for China. Of course the USA won't simply make them a bunch of new states, with right of entry to the USA. They'll have to become semi-autonomous regions, run by the USA but not strictly part of it. See how Benin gets foreign pole climbers to install cellphones. They need to be colonized to get things done. Mqurice