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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: nicollo

Property rights, recorded at the gov't recorder's office, is what launched the US economy in the late 1800's. No other country had the system, and no other country even comes close now.


58 posted on 03/19/2006 6:48:14 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: nicollo

China is interesting because it guarantees the property rights of a select class while using the majority of the population as slaves.


62 posted on 03/19/2006 6:55:44 PM PST by Porterville (Sure are a lot of these few Muslim Extremist Fanatics)
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