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To: nigel bates who wrote (41659)	10/31/2008 9:46:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

As for the Congo, it hasn't had a real government in the last half century. The Belgians did a great job of getting them ready for independence.

To: nigel bates who wrote (41659)	11/1/2008 3:50:12 AM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 149317

Re: "By your definition, private institutions don't exist, period." LOL...in a sense that's too true. But in reality free markets are busy, busy, busy all the time in many ways. Though markets shaped by taxes, tariffs, etc. are never technically pure free markets, still the beast of freedom lives on (yea, it can't be stopped), and always attempts to overcome interference creating more or less unfree markets. The Soviet Union attempted to let little go uncontrolled. Government control caused shortages of numerous things to occur relentlessly in Soviet Life. Hence came black markets. But Black Markets represented freedom at work despite being forbidden, and in many ways were the only option, however "illegal, (not in the "public interest" per government)" for people to procure necessities for themselves and survive.