I have a solution for both Argentina and Japan. Why don't they join together as a new sort of transworld nation? A sort of constitutional dumb-bell. Goodness knows, some countrys' constitutions are confused. Ours, for example. In fact it's so confused that it's unwritten and we make it up as we go along.
Japan's old age structure could compensate for Argentina's young one. Argentina's facility for inflation could neutralise Japan's deflation. Japan has plenty of hi-tech enterprises, Argentina hardly has any. Dozens of Japanese banks could reverse themselves into empty Argentinians ones, dropping their bad loans into the Pacific on the way over. Argentinian gauchos could learn how to breed koi carp, and Japanese men love good quality beef. I'm sure there would be lots of other mutual gains. What a nation that would make! Keith Hudson __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
