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From: abelard2@abelard.org
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:57:19 GMT, Clough
typed:
>On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:33:31 +0100, abelard
>wrote:
>
>>>>>If you're living in a slum with no money, few prospects, a sick child
>>>>>and you get a president who starts to use your countries oil resources
>>>>>to provide schools, medicine and doctors for the poor intead of
>>>>>allowing super rich vultures siphon it all off into their own pockets,
>>>>>it's not difficult to see who you will support. Or who you will fight
>>>>>for.
>
>>>>noble...almost posturing words....
>
>>>Still, the words have substance. They describe the reality in
>>>Venezuela.
>
>>probably/conceded....
>>and many another burg...
>
>>but you do somewhat conflate the 'super rich' with 'slum with no money'
>>there is no necessary connection....
>
>The connection is between oil revenue and where it flows.
>
>Disconnected from greed and connected to need.
not clear what you mean....much of the world is poor....
not all of it has oil....
much that has no oil is not poor...
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