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To: GPS Info who wrote (79379)	6/24/2018 5:48:45 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 365008

The British were fairly good. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, though. They also tended to make a profit from them, but their colonies were generally well-governed and most because real democracies. But, they had long-term plans that ran for generations on how to do it and had lots of people specifically trained in their system. We tend to randomly pick people out of businesses and often "plan", if you can call them that, to be done in a few years.

To: GPS Info who wrote (79379)	6/24/2018 8:33:45 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 365008

I am confused, the Marshall plan did a great job rebuilding Japan, Germany and South Korea and heading them in the direction of a vibrant economy and democracy. Central America has a simple problem no one wants to discuss and a simple solution, not one wants to consider i.e. they have too much religion and too littler education. There are too few social science administrators who understand the rule of law. The best thing we could do and it is the best and only solution,IMO, would be to spend a billion dollars a year on education, including serving people who went to school hot meals every day. That would pull Central America out of its crime and economic problem better than anything.. In countries where that formula was applied like South Korea it worked spectacularly. In 40 years it went from a third world dictatorship and GDP to the 11th largest GDP in the world and a vibrant democracy If only we could do as well: "SEOUL, South Korea — For decades, South Korea has been plagued by corrupt ties between government and big business, a state of affairs that dates to the country’s dictatorial past and persists as it became a global economic powerhouse. For nearly as long, politicians involved in graft have been going to jail — including those at the very top. In the 1990s, two former presidents convicted of corruption received lengthy prison terms. On Friday, former President Park Geun-hye joined their number as a court sentenced her to 24 years, more than a year after she was impeached and removed from office over an influence-peddling scandal. nytimes.com