VIETTHIET00@YAHOO.COM (VIET THIET) wrote in message news:...

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> The next embarassing thing is the horrible poverty created by the
> incompetent and corrupt VCP, which causes total loss of human dignity
> and all moral rectitude among the average people.

I've asked you this several times in the last couple years, and have
not gotten a satisfactory answer.

The Vietnamese government did not asked to be embargoed after the war.
On the contrary, they tried to join ASEAN and tried to get loans from
the IMF and World Bank.

1) What do you think Vietnam's average GNP growth rate was from 1982
to today (hint: the economy accelerated after Doi Moi, growth didn't
begin then)?

2) Under conditions of involuntary embargo, what *would* have been the
growth rate from 1982-current if whatever policies you favor were in
place?

I stipulate to 2 things -- a) that the economic policies from 1976-80
were astoundingly awful b) that GNP growth is not the only, or even
most important criteria by which a government should be evaluated.
Nevertheless, you repeatedly claim that the Vietnamese government has
been an economic failure, and you never say only in the early post-war
years, so you must be talking about the entire record. So, let's see
some facts supporting your claim. How fast did they grow since 1982,
how fast could they have grown realistically? These are straight
forward questions. If you have never read such data, then you should
be cautious about making such sweeping statements until you have.