From: "Richard Hong" 

>> You think the same amount of money spent at the same time in South
America or Africa would have had beneficial effects so dramatic? No way.

Randall,

Let's take South America as an example.  You don't think that a Marshall
Plan type of program for Colombia would have saved us billions in fighting
drugs grown by improverished farmers?

Would Africa be Europe if we spent Marshall Plan money?  Probably not.  But
it would be a lot closer to something like India than it is.

Rich

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