alt.politics.republicans

On Feb 21, 12:59=A0am, Governor Swill <...@> wrote:
> Anonymous Infidel - the anti-political talking head
> used a stick in the sand to babble
>
> >> He is quite right. =A0No less a conservative than PJ O'Rourke has
> >> pointed out how Vietnam has embraced western capitalist ways and his
> >> prospered thereby. =A0As far back as the nineties private enterprise wa=
s
> >> exploding in the country.
> >Population:
> >85,262,356 (July 2007 est.) <- Growing by leaps and bounds
>
> >GDP (purchasing power parity):
> >$ billion (2007 est.) <- Vietnamese can't afford to buy anything
> >GDP (official exchange rate):
> >$ billion (2007 est.) <- This is an embrace of western
> >capatalism?
> >GDP - real growth rate:
> >% (2007 est.) =A0<- Seriously, with the above stat, you consider this
> >grand? You sir are laughable.
>
> It's nearly three times our rate.
A) And isn't anywhere near keeping up with the population growth.
B) ->GDP (official exchange rate): $ billion (2007 est.)<-
>
> >GDP - per capita (PPP):
> >$2,600 (2007 est.) =A0<- Vietnamese can't afford to buy anything
>
> It's a small, developing country. =A0
Developing into a shithole full of sweatshops. Jane Fonda should be
proud.
>
> The point isn't the totals, it's the trend.
Which shows that the country is increasingly poor, the people have no
good jobs, no future and no way to make their lives better.

Like I said, Manning and Doug were full of shit, the countries/
region's decline can be traced to the withdrawel of American troops.