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2003-01-27 Axis of Evil

Reforms Turns Disastorous for North Koreans

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Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-01-27 02:43 pm|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Six months after North Korea announced unprecedented wage and price increases to jump-start its miserable economy, runaway inflation is emptying millions of pocketbooks and bottlenecks in production are causing widespread shortages

*nods* Socialists never learn.

Posted by Ptah 1/27/2003 11:37:58 AM|| 1/27/2003 11:37:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Are you sure? KCNA says everything's just great up there!

Posted by tu3031 2003-01-27 11:18:51|| 2003-01-27 11:18:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Six months after North Korea announced unprecedented wage and price increases to jump-start its miserable economy, runaway inflation is emptying millions of pocketbooks and bottlenecks in production are causing widespread shortages

*nods* Socialists never learn.

Posted by Ptah 2003-01-27 11:37:58|| 2003-01-27 11:37:58|| Front Page Top

#4 We should bomb them with copies of "the mystery of capital" by H. DeSoto and "The Road to Serfdom" by Hayek.

If they cant read, they can eat the books.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-01-27 12:19:15|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-01-27 12:19:15|| Front Page Top

#5 All the NK leaders failed Economics 101, were exempted from taking it, or played hooky. You know, the law of supply and demand. It even applies in nature. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Applies to everyone and everything...elementary, my dear Watson.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-01-27 13:41:23|| 2003-01-27 13:41:23|| Front Page Top

#6 "...coupons that can be exchanged for goods, they said, but there are no goods in the stores to buy"

That, my friends, neatly sums up what communism is all about.

Posted by Rw 2003-01-27 15:40:59|| 2003-01-27 15:40:59|| Front Page Top

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