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To: arun gera who wrote (79745)	9/17/2011 1:04:17 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218882

Yes, and they want to have spare passports and go on long holidays or even live in other countries. They also like investing and want good investments such as capital gains in Tradable Citizenships. <Those at the top with real money have better lives in their own countries. > Have you read what TJ has been writing about the amounts of money flooding into Hong Kong by economic migrants? Those at the top of Greece might be thinking about alternative residence locations now, and investment places. Same for Rwanda in 1994 before the mass murders. Same for Jews in Germany in the 1930s. Russians in Russia when Lenin took over. Chinese in China when Mao's Maelstrom caused gross carnage and decades of poverty after confiscation. Yugoslavia. Argentina. Chile. Cambodia. Burma. Vietnam. North Korea. Good grief, there are swarms of countries from which people would like to have escaped even if they were loaded with money before the catastrophes. Especially so in that case. Yes, those at the top with real money have better lives in their own countries, until they don't. Swarms of people from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have got New Zealand citizenship and then leveraged that into Australia, their real goal, mainly as a bolt hole and insurance. Australia got sick of it and pulled up the drawbridge. New Zealand is not so stupid now on wildly handing out citizenships but they are still given out with little control and little recognition of the value transferred or the costs such as traffic jams, accidents, fish stock depletion, shell fish raids, water consumption, electricity supply limitations, education and hospital costs. Prisons too. More people [as you would know from India] does not necessarily mean improved GDP per person or general quality of life. Mqurice