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To: neolib who wrote (9103)	12/16/2010 3:27:14 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Zimbabwe is a good example It's an interesting one, but it has a lot of confounding variables, which weaken its applicability. Re offering explanations, it's interesting to me that you offered an example rather than dots in response. FWIW. Why is it sometimes not? Quality of the electorate, for one, willingness of the best qualified to run, for another. Our culture does not facilitate either, IMO. And then there's always inattention and apathy. Re our electorate and concentrated wealth, it seems to me that the greater problem is the expansion on the other end. When government is viewed as an equalizer and wealth distributor and when fewer than half of us are adding to the pot, there's an inevitable consumption of the seed corn.