Re: [PEN-L] What the Empire Learned from the Lesson of Iran

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 8/12/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yoshie wrote:

>****  Compare Iran and Venezuela:
>
>Iran: "The World Bank reports that the government consumed 14 percent
>of GDP in 2003. In the same year, according to the International
>Monetary Fund's Government Financial Statistics CD­ROM, Iran received
>53.83 percent of its total revenues from state-owned enterprises and
>government ownership of property.

Actually, state ownership prevails throughout much of the Middle East,
including Saudi Arabia.

Strange, capitalists don't agree with you:
<http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/country.cfm?id=SaudiArabia>.
:->  Saudi Arabia is ranked 62nd in the "Index of Economic Freedom -
2006," compared to Iran (156th)  and Venezuela (152nd).
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Yoshie
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