Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Impoverishing ideas in action

The reserve bank governor said he received constant pleas from food and petrol distributors, the national airline and the railways for foreign currency that has all but dried up because tobacco exports, once Zimbabwe's biggest source of US dollars, have fallen to a fifth of what they were before the land seizures. The other big earner, tourism, has also collapsed.
Who does your property belong to?

Whoever can take it. In these cases, through force.

Now tell me, is this rule of law any better elsewhere?

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