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Old February 3rd 04, 12:18 AM
Tom Sixkiller
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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If there's poverty there, it's caused by the people that ACCEPTED
the "offer". For one thing, Mexico was impoverished long before

Trotsky
was
even BORN. The basis of poverty is cultural, which accepts the

ideology
that
leads to poverty.

You are mistaken. At the time Trotsky arrived in Mexico, the peso was

1
troy oz of ,.999 pure silver; while the dollar required $1.18 to be an

oz
sterling. Today, even with three zeros shaved off the peso, you

couldn't
get a pack of gum for a peso.


And you're confusing the value of the currency with the prosperity of

the
country.


If the money is no good, there is no way to acquire wealth.


See: The USA in the 20th century, and for the inverse, Latvia, and now Japan
and China.