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To: elmatador who wrote (55066)	9/16/2009 2:23:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218083

Brazil - a "pleasant and amusing place" to live [for those who can put up with the corruption, murder, theft and frustrations]. I prefer civility. Once upon a time, there was some of it here. But Helen Clark and the previous 40 years of bad government took it down the gurgler. Not that it was idyllic back in the day either. Utopia has never been here but it was much better in many respects, sociologically and in relative GDP per capita [compared with the rest of the world]. Brazil can't take over much at all by paying peanuts to cut sugar cane to make ethanol. Russians would think Brazilians mad - all that ethanol and instead of making vodka, they put it in cars. Mqurice