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To: TimF who wrote (539925)12/31/2009 7:22:06 PM
From: Don Hurst  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576329
 
>>" And it hardly merits repeating that both Chile and China today have significantly higher standards of living than Cuba, an authoritarian regime... "<<

Gee, I'll be darned...amazing, the largest consumer society on the planet has never stopped trading with Chile or China or embargoed them either and I believe they have had "authoritarian regime" periods. Could that have any impact on their "significantly higher standards of living" and more liberal economies?...NAAH