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old man 76

(228 posts)
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:54 PM May 2014

How to make a Third World Country

How do you create a third world country? First you have a wide disparity in wealth with a small percentage having most of the money and power. Next you have no programs that would provide health care, food and basic shelter for the poor. You have no laws or regulations so people will have no guaranteed wage, unsafe or dangerous working conditions and no labor laws at all. See, it is coming together. Starving people will do whatever just to have food and work for nothing. Businesses in third world countries can produce with very little cost and make large profits. Of course you need a large powerful military to protect wealthy corporations and people any place in the world. You also give the wealthy people and corporations low taxes and subsidies so they will bestow wealth and power to the government in power. This is true trickledown economics. You might also want laws that forbid most human rights such as challenging government authority or voting rights. As for women’s rights, well their main function would be to produce new workers as the life expectancy for the poor workers would be very short. I am sure that as time passed, as with any plan, it would need a few changes but the desired effect would be achieved.

Now I would like to take credit for devising this plan but I cannot. Read Paul Ryan’s budget, pay close attention to the republican senators and representatives. Watch Fox News for a few days. If I said this was my plan it plainly would be plagiarism.

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How to make a Third World Country (Original Post) old man 76 May 2014 OP
k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth May 2014 #1
Welcome aboard. Jackpine Radical May 2014 #2
third world enid602 May 2014 #3
A militarized police force... toddwv May 2014 #4

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
2. Welcome aboard.
Thu May 1, 2014, 06:08 PM
May 2014

You can see the success of your plan as it does its magic on the capitalist west.

Europe is lagging behind us in our ascent to the perfect Corporate State, but they're on the way too, as the banksters and their minions force austerity upon one country after another.

enid602

(9,031 posts)
3. third world
Thu May 1, 2014, 06:15 PM
May 2014

An even better way to make a third world country would be to drastically lower taxes for the wealthy at the same time you start 2 very costly wars. Then you outsource many military functions. The wealthy have the money to invest in this outsourcing, and then don't have to pay taxes. When the costly wars bankrupt the country, you just say that unfortunately the country can no longer afford entitlement programs.

Oh wait, they already tried this.

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
4. A militarized police force...
Thu May 1, 2014, 10:47 PM
May 2014

also restrict access to education.
Laws that make it easy to declare anyone a criminal.

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