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Zimbabwe will pay dearly for trashing economic rules
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| 21 Feb 2006
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Posted on 02/20/2006 1:55:42 PM PST by vikingd00d
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You can evade reality as much as you like, but you can not evade the consequences of evading reality.
To: vikingd00d
"...was printing money to guarantee its political survival. Hey! I have an HP PhotoSmart printer....
Why haven't I thought of this before?
Oh Yeah! 30 Yrs Federal Prison.
To: vikingd00d
Love that quote!
I wish our own worthless political class would figure out that you can't repeal the law of supply and demand by legislative fiat anymore than they can repeal the law of gravity!
To: vikingd00d
"RBZ governor Gideon Gono also shocked the business community last week when he revealed that he had to print Z$21 trillion to purchase the foreign currency that was used to settle Zimbabwe's arrears to the IMF"
Who was the idiot to sell him the foreign currency for 21 trillion sheets of used toilet paper?
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:01:06 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: vikingd00d
Harare-based consultant economist John Robertson
If he's still in the country, he better watch his back...
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:01:13 PM PST
by
BubbaTheRocketScientist
(We're from the town with the Super Bowl Team, we cheer the Pittsburgh Steelers!)
To: vikingd00d
Good article, and certainly a good one for anyone who has liberal economic views to read.
IMO, this is one of the best articles I have ever read and would provide good reading material for any lib have the displeasure of knowing.
Measure First Then Cut, The Economist, Sept 9, 2004
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:01:54 PM PST
by
proud_yank
(Liberalism - The 'Culture of Ignorance'.)
To: vikingd00d
The latest reality show on Fox. Atlas Shrugged - Zimbabwe.
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:01:54 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Next Olympics I want wide track bobsledding. Four sleds on the track at once - like Ben Hur on ice.)
To: vikingd00d
I don't know how anyone deals with inflation at 1000% except to go to a barter economy.
Even Mugabe's supporters can't be liking this.
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:02:06 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: vikingd00d
The bank economist, who did not want to be named for professional reasons (not to jeopardize possible employment in the next Clinton Administration)
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:05:18 PM PST
by
alrea
To: vikingd00d
An AIDS infested racist Marxist thug starving hellhole on the verge of collapse. And I should care because...?
The sooner the place is depopulated, the better.
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:05:20 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
To: vikingd00d
I look forward to Mugabe being roasted alive by his hungry people.
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:05:23 PM PST
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Dog Gone
Well, I have $100...I think I will buy the whole country and burn it just for fun!
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:05:26 PM PST
by
MadeInAmerica
( - Tested in the Middle East)
To: vikingd00d
This is clearly and has always been a Dubya plot to divert attention from ... take your pick.
Don't believe that ... just wait for "I cannot recall" Clintoon to chime here!
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:07:38 PM PST
by
jamaksin
To: vikingd00d
"You can evade reality as much as you like, but you can not evade the consequences of evading reality."
I wish the "liberals" in our own country and the rest of so called Western civilization could and would learn this fact of life and heed it.
The liberals always think words and good intentions are reality.
When they try and tell you that there is no objective truth, ask them which airline they fly on and what holds the planes up in the air, good wishes or the laws of aerodynamics and physics?
Then ask them again where they want to place their faith or illusions.
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:08:34 PM PST
by
garyhope
(Peace through superior firepower, A-10's, C-130 gunships, rational thought and pragmatism.)
To: vikingd00d
You can evade reality as much as you like, but you can not evade the consequences of evading reality. I see an RNC Ad in the making.
To: proud_yank
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:14:31 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: vikingd00d
To think that Zimbabwe was considered the breadbasket of Africa only 30 years ago. What a shame that so many innocents are dying as a result of Mugabe's evil.
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:15:43 PM PST
by
American Quilter
(Lucidity of speech is one of the surest tests of mental precision. - David Lloyd George)
To: garyhope
Will Uncle Hugo Chavez float Mugabe a loan ?
To: vikingd00d
Mugabe turns 82 today I cannot wait for Mugabe to meet his maker. At least he will go down in history as the man who ruined his country, killed and starved millions and stole the land of people who fed the country and made it prosper.
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posted on
02/20/2006 2:20:22 PM PST
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
To: garyhope
"The liberals always think words and good intentions are reality...."
This is the underlying principle I tried to teach my kids:
"While I care because I'm your father, the world doesn't care what you think, and the world doesn't care how you feel. All the the world wants or needs from you is what you can do.
"So I will ask you every day; 'What did you accomplish today'? If you at least have a good answer for that, you'll be ahead of 90% of the rest of your peers".
The jury's still out, but in spite of all of contemporary society's attempts to the contrary, and for their youth (20 & 23) they are remarkably conservative.
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