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To: miss marmelstein
Why Africa is Poor

..Doesn't have to be...Zimbabwe used to be rich and prosperous..until....well, you know.

Greed.....and especially ignorance will finish off anything or anybody. I would bet that there are millions of Africans in the former Rhodesia, black and white, who are longing for a return to the prosperity of the '70's there (if they are old enough to remember)....before Mugabe and his thugs were "elected"......

...Zim is one of the glaring examples of the old sayings:

...elections have consequences, and...

... you better be careful of what you wish for...you may just get it.

22 posted on 09/14/2010 2:05:48 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: B.O. Plenty

Interesting...I read somewhere that some black Zimbabweians are even wishing for colonialism to make a comeback. That’s pretty pathetic and not likely to happen until long after we all are pushing up the daisies!


29 posted on 09/14/2010 2:16:45 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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