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To: Lorianne

The following will make any country RICH!

1) Honest courts and police to enforce contracts and put criminals in prison.

2) profound respect for private property.

3) Free markets

4) Secure borders to keep out invading armies and hordes of refugees.

5) Rule of law and equality before the law.

Democracy is not necessary. If it were Hong Kong wouldn't be the powerhouse that it is.


3 posted on 03/19/2006 4:57:49 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: wintertime

Wow! Since none of the 5 things you listed exist in the United States anymore, sounds like we're on the road to ruin.


5 posted on 03/19/2006 5:02:07 PM PST by xrp (Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
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To: wintertime; Porterville
Good list, wintertime, but you must add to it:

6) free speech. (And religion, assembly, petition, & press)

Tolerance for dissent is a crucial ingredient to a nation's enduring economic and political success. It does not mean compromising fundamental principles, but it does mean being open to new ways, technologies and ideas. Cultures and nations that refuse to listen don't last. Chicoms are having one helluva time with this one just about now... For an original defense of dissent, see John Milton's Areopagitica, the great defense of being wrong. (And an original text or the American first amendment -- See this long piece: Milton's Areopagitica and the Modern First Amendment)

So, Porterville, there's more to it than just property rights. At least 1/10th of it, anyway...

54 posted on 03/19/2006 6:44:39 PM PST by nicollo (All economics are politics)
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To: wintertime

Add a heaping helping of morality and your recipe is complete.


71 posted on 03/19/2006 7:47:29 PM PST by killermosquito (Buffalo (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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