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Zimbabwe, Inflation Declared Illegal

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fuelair said:
Hate to have to say this, but they deserve it - for several reasons.
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You think the people who are going to starve to death deserve it? Or the people who are going to continue to live a life of luxury before fleeing the country to spend more time with their Swiss bank accounts?
 
Jaggy Bunnet said:
You think the people who are going to starve to death deserve it? Or the people who are going to continue to live a life of luxury before fleeing the country to spend more time with their Swiss bank accounts?
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I am of a mind to quote Rober Heinlein at times like this:

But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Collective stupidity tends to result in larger body counts.

DR
 
Darth Rotor said:
But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
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I had a job once which included cataloguing all work related fatal accident reports in my country. From this experience I can tell you that often, those that are punished for this universal capital crime are often not those who committed it.
 
It sounds like Mugabe ripped a page from the US's wonderfully successful, "war on drugs". We can control anything by making laws prohibitting it!

Charlie (feeling somewhat inflated) Monoxide
 
Ziggurat said:
They already can't, though they used to be able to before Mugabe screwed it all up.

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The was a story on NPR about a year ago about Zimbabwain white farmers and how, since they had their farms taken away, they've migrated to neighboring countries and set up farms. And, big surprise, their skills and knowledge have proved to be a boon to the new countires in which they've settled. Mugabe is a real idiot for putting racial politics and pride over the health of his country.
 
It isn't just that white farmers took their skills away...it is that Mugabe's land reform, surprise, surprise, was used to reward political cronies not people really willing to farm the land. In short, farmers -- white or black -- aren't in controll of the land, party members. In fact, Mugabe has kept small black farmers off much of the land that was taken. It wasn't "land reform" in any sense, it was complete theft, not even justifiable by any sort of socialist logic.
 
Tony said:
The was a story on NPR about a year ago about Zimbabwain white farmers and how, since they had their farms taken away, they've migrated to neighboring countries and set up farms. And, big surprise, their skills and knowledge have proved to be a boon to the new countires in which they've settled. Mugabe is a real idiot for putting racial politics and pride over the health of his country.
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It's not racial politics for him - it's power politics, the seizure of lands is just one aspect of his (effective) dictatorship.

ETA - What headscratcher4 said.
 
If stupidity was made illegal would that make the problem go away...
 
I say we make an international law against douchebaggery. That should solve many problems.
 
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