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The Modern Survival Manual on American Thinker
American Thinker as expert´s advice. (thanks Rand for the heads up!)
by Mike Konrad, explains how Argentina is a case study of bad politics and
corruption.
the rest.
How to Destroy a Rich Country
By Mike Konrad
The
next election may determine where America is headed — to a restoration
of its greatness, or to a retreat into the obsolescence of history.
Before one casts a vote, an example stands before us of a country that
made the wrong choice, warning us what to avoid.
The
country is Argentina, chiefly unknown to most Americans, apart from its
creation of the tango . This ignorance on our part is inexcusable,
since Argentina resembles an America that went awry.
Argentina’s statistics are astounding.
Argentina
is a little less than half the size of the continental United States,
with a climate that runs from polar in the south to tropical in the
north. Most of Argentina’s land mass is in the subtropical belt, where
one finds the pampas — arguably the best beef- and grain-growing region
on the planet. The warm extended growing season gives Argentina an
advantage over our cooler Kansas and Nebraska. There are times when
Argentina has exceeded the USA in cattle product exports,
and this production has been going on for over a century. Its grain
exports are enormous, and much of the planet depends on Argentina for
food. This is all the more amazing when one considers that Argentina
has only 41 million people, one eighth the population of the United States. In the early 20th century, the ratio vis-à-vis the United States was even smaller, and still the Argentines could outperform us on agricultural exportsat times.
Argentina, like the United States, had massive European immigration from 1870 to 1920. Large numbers of Italians, Germans, French, Jews,Welsh,
Christian Arabs from Syria and Lebanon, Swiss, Basques, Croats, and
Galacians from Northwest Spain settled in. There were even some Irish, English, Poles, Ukrainians, and Scandanavians, though in considerably smaller numbers.
Blacks constitute only 3% of the Argentine genome,
and most of those who carry African genes are now partly white through
intermarriage. The chief nonwhite minority are the indigenous native
Indians, who constitute about 19% of the Argentine genome.
On
a genetic level, Argentina may be more “European” than we Americans,
though tending more to the Mediterranean than the Nordic. About half
the population has traces of Indian blood, but even these often pass for
swarthy whites. For all intents and purposes, Argentina, until
recently, was a white European country, and boasted of it. The real
shocker is that Spanish-speaking Argentina may have more Italians than
Spanish, which is why they say ciao (which they spell chau) rather than adiós.
It also has a liberal constitution roughly based on the American model.
2013-03-12 03:00:46
Source: http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-modern-survival-manual-on-american.html
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