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2007-07-29 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 We've been watching Rhodesia die in slow motion for six years now. My stomach just churns when I think how awful it must be to subsist there.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-29 00:31|| 2007-07-29 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Print more ~~Money~~ Toilet Paper

Fixed!

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-29 01:10|| 2007-07-29 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 ~~FDR~~ Mugabe says he will print more money

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-29 02:34|| 2007-07-29 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 And when you monetize currency that is already devalued, you get more inflation. Wow, fantastic job mug. You took a country that was the breadbasket of Africa and turned it into a worthless banana republic. All for your pipe dream called socialism.

YOU are the problem, mugabe.
YOU.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-07-29 06:21|| 2007-07-29 06:21|| Front Page Top

#5 What's next? Bob gonna print up more milk? Or meat? Or cornmeal?

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-29 08:52|| 2007-07-29 08:52|| Front Page Top

#6 There are far too many states in Africa, each a little fiefdom run by petty little men.

A population of 680 million and so many countries.

What has saved parts of rural India from descending into the abyss is a federal system. The various petty politicians get their knuckles rapped. They get removed from power. They get imprisoned.

One Indian Cabinet Minister, Lalu Yadav, formerly the Chief Minister of Bihar state suggested at a cabinet meeting that states should be allowed to print money. That he suggested would help them balance their budgets. The Indian PM, Manmohan Singh (Doctorate in Economics from Oxford) didn't even respond to this nonsense. He wrote a memo advising ministers that they need not attend cabinet meetings, they could send their senior civil servants instead.

Indian Chief Ministers can be dismissed by the Indian President and so called Presidential rule (administration from Delhi) imposed for a time.

Some Chief Ministers have been convicted and jailed by the Indian Federal court system.

This is all backed by 1.5 million strong Army and Federal Paramilitary Police that can impose law and order by the bayonet (and kukri) if necessary

Mugabe, fit to rule a village perhaps, can destroy an entire country because there is nothing to restrain him.

Posted by John Frum 2007-07-29 10:31|| 2007-07-29 10:31|| Front Page Top

#7 All these "Presidents" who get to address the UN, get met at the airport with a guard of honor, who have entire treasuries to loot....

Posted by John Frum 2007-07-29 11:07|| 2007-07-29 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Print more money?

Yeah, that'll fix everything.

Loon.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-07-29 13:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-07-29 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 What? There ain't enough to fill all the wheelbarrows these days?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-07-29 15:07|| 2007-07-29 15:07|| Front Page Top

#10 The paper is now worth more than the denominations printed on it.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-29 23:19|| 2007-07-29 23:19|| Front Page Top

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