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...ER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Suzie Kl... ... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ......................................................... .................. 72 3 THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of ... ...meet our scraggly clan. We are so excited to be here and learn about your country.” —“Commander, we are honored that you have included our fai... ...on. But what impressed me most was the cleanliness of the place. I swear by the gods of Tide and Tidy Bowl that I never saw a single piece of litt... ...ll us that it takes 2.2 children per family to keep the population stable. By limiting families to only two children a society might insure itself o... ...ed a population of Chinese, Malays and Indians to develop one of the top economies in the world. Without natural resources it was a seemingly impos... ...s or means. If the end justifies the means, the development of these Asian economies are hallmarks to that concept. In the West we are facin... ...hat haven‟t controlled their own birthrates and haven‟t developed adequate economies. We understand that it‟s not the fault of the children, but its ...

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...S” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Susie Kle... ................................ 74 THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ......................................... 76 LAW ENFORCEMENT ........ ...uistic sea legs. —―Gentlemen, I am Gopol Ghosh. I welcome you to our country.‖ 4 —―Mr. Ghosh, we are deeply honored that you would tak... ...this ancient plain. There were no sacred cows blocking our way. This country was too poor to support the Brahma bulls that wandered aimlessly i... ...s--but so often the prisoners of our own 5 decisions. So often jailed by our traditions. So often mired in the confinement of our helplessness. ... ...in the water table over the last three decades. The poor water management by the government has resulted in 40% of India‘s farms having no irrigatio... ... much to the international economy.‖ —―What do we do in our private economies when our checkbooks don‘t balance? We either take a second job t... ...Y —―There is more than aging that we have to deal with. Expanding economies usually bring expanding desires. Bigger houses, more and bigger c... ...ed the mutual maladies of retarded development, although both had growing economies. And for a long time Pakistan‘s grew faster than India‘s. But In...

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...IVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Suzie Kl... ...ems that work in a modern and globalized world. Kino, as a new country, didn‟t have to endure the problems that plagued China during the ... ...peasants of a few decades ago have been reduced as they have been absorbed by death or the cities. The uneducated masses have evolved into a highly ... ... at least in part responsible for the over two million prison inmates in my country. The 5 big question is where is the best balance between the d... ...ckshaw from the airport, but my entourage and I were escorted from the jet by Madam Ching, the president of Kino, in a hydrogen powered limousine. Th... ...n society to us. But here in Jingjing was a city, and perhaps even a whole country, that seemed to be able to rise above the commonplace and to prod... ...llutes more air and does all of the same negative things that the advanced economies of the U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe do. When the Chinese people... ...goods for the global economy, enticed productive people from the faltering economies of the West to immigrate. German engineers, American doctors and...

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...R RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Klein... ...a limit.‖ --―Touche‘ And Con is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. L... ...s who like Szechwan and Thai.‖ --―My taste buds have been destroyed by jalapenos and habaneras so I‘ll go for your hottest recommendation. Wha... ...yond and seek more important goals, then we will find that happiness is a by-product of our life quest. Your famous historian Arnold Toynbee said th... ...e life satisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra mone... ...There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason against one‘s country is one. Murder of a person in your own society is also very common... ...ou live, but don‘t make me alter my lifestyle. If we look at the emerging economies of China and India as ‗selfs‘ we see that they don‘t want curbs ... ...will you exercise? ―It seems that both democracies and free market economies emphasize self-centered values. Democracies because we decide wh... ...hnology, like computerization. But China sprinted ahead of all the Western economies. Society must aid business with incentives to keep production co...

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...Search of Utopia-- BOOK 1 TOUCH DOWN--RETURN TO EARTH by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Susie ... ... Gulliver, I lusted for adventure. But the adventure into the unknown world by his sailing ship 300 years ago could not have been as exciting as the... ...w Atlantis and work to join humanity and policy together. “Guided by the practice of the rulers of New Atlantis, voyagers would set out per... ... to have children as the only hope for humanity.” —“When I left my beloved country on October 12, 1999 it was not significant that my voyage began ... ...t economic advantages. The keys to both paths have been the approaches each country has taken to control or foster their national birth rates. The m... ...me more remote as the population increases—and ages. Even in rich Norway, a country with no national debt and a huge oil income, the main hospital o... ... are cases in point. In the short term, the next 50 to 100 years, countries’ economies will be pinched to deliver pension and health benefits for the... ... the populations age. This also forces a re-direction of their once vibrant economies. Even oil- rich Norway, a social welfare model, is not handling... ...ren. But you would have to agree that in the non-agricultural and developed economies children cost money. Some families are 66 happier with chil...

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... on Wall Street. General Washing ton had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice Presi de... ...e with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and re ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On th... ...ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love,... ... on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from ... ...her hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being suf ficient to awaken in the wisest and most ex... ...liated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such ... ...mong the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican INAUGURA...

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