From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 10:16:09 MST
In a message dated 2/20/2003 10:02:22 AM Central Standard Time,
mez@apexnano.com writes: The US provides $3B in direct aid to egypt. That's
second only to Israel. It's also around a quarter of the hard currency that
flows into egypt each year. Yet the US applies little or no pressure to open
up the press, hold elections, crack down on corruption, or reform the
educational system.
Mez,
Lee Corbin suggested to you that you read the book by Hernando de
Soto, The Mystery of Capitalism. I suggest you do so also.
The book describes what went on the the US and some other countries
that largely resulted in what success we have had. Some other countries have
been successful with the same methods.
I would like to start you down that road, to understanding the US,
with this thought -- can you believe we sort of stumbled into our success
pattern and even today 98% of our people haven't got the foggiest idea what
it was that we did (and are doing) that was right?
If you will forgive me I would like to second Lee's suggestion but
refrain from discussing Dr. de Soto's book any further -- he understands his
subject far better than I do so why don't you get it straight from the horses
mouth.
Ron h.
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