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You get a gold star (not an actual gold star, just one of them stickers emulating a gold star).
:-)
Dean,
You bring up a good point -- even if we were only 1% smarter (in writing a rights-resepecting Constitution, or whatever), folks would flock here and, over some extended period of time, we would become (and may have already become) 20% smarter than all of the rest of the world. But it still doesn't detract from the original reason, the reason that brought the smart ones over here in the first place -- the original respect for rights.
So yes, we're smarter now (except for our socialists), but that doesn't explain the disparity in production of new wealth -- but law derived from individual rights does.
Ed
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... the United States represents approximately 5% of the world's population but has created more new wealth than all the rest of the world combined.
