Anniversary/ Hey Brad?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 20 09:46:28 PDT 2002


pms wrote:


>How come you always read about the oil-rich ME's people being upset about
>the drop in their per capita in recent years?

Because their leaders steal all the money. Because being an oil exporter can be a curse - there's little incentive for local capitalists to invest in industry, when they can pocket oil revenue. That's not good for the local working class.

Doug



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