--- Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:

> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> > Following that crooked logic, nobody should be allowed to leave their
> > country, state, county, town, family... as everybody got some "investment"
> > from (some of) these institutions when young.
> 
> Well, the obvious answer is -- you have to create decent conditions in the 
> home country so people would want to stay.
> 
> > Then there's of course the question what free education they were talking
> > about when they closed the border before 1950... Free lessons how to scrub
> > Russian tanks? :)
> 
> Hm... was there free education under the National Socialists? Maybe that was 
> the brain drain that the East Germans were trying to stop? ;)
> 
> Vitaliy 

Hah, for some unknown reason the direction of this thread reminds me of a
Kiwi-Aussie joke, famously told by one Piggy Muldoon, Prime Minister of NZ.
Hope Jinx doesn't mind?

Q: Why is emigration from New Zealand to Australia a Good Thing?
A: It improves the IQ of both countries ... 

Debbie :)




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