Quote Of The Day: Free & Prosperous Nations Are The Aberrations, Poverty Is The Norm

01 Jun, 2005 by John Hawkins

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“(W)hen we look at the third world, our heart cries out, as it should, but that doesn’t mean that those in the third world are victims of anything but nature. The appalling poverty of Sri Lanka or Mozambique is not some bizarre aberration that can be tracked to a cause we can cure. We are the aberration; Sri Lanka and Mozambique are the normal state of human history. Trying to figure out how to reproduce those abnormal results in a couple hundred more countries is very, very hard.” — Jane Galt