Welcome to the third world

Ah, the joy of not living the reality of the Third World, how we envy the proposition! We intend to guide the readers into the real facts and situations during history, and which continue to occur at the very moment of this debate, regarding: governance, poverty, corruption and rights of the individual in developing countries. What are governments capable of? The opposition said: “the governments are hardly going to force medical personnel out of the country to ship them off for profit”. Governments don’t always care first about the welfare of the population. Their priority is to maintain themselves in power in order to exercise it for the profit of the ruling elite. Case in point: of 22.000 employees, the most prepared and capable of Venezuelans Oil Company (PDVSA), and Venezuela's president Chávez who fired them, some by name, on live TV, just for their political ideologies[[http://articles.latimes.com/2002/dec/23/world/fg-briefs23.1. Today the company can't produce even half of what it did before. In Turkmenistan the government decided to close all hospitals that weren't in the cities, and started "replacing up to 15,000 doctors and nurses with unqualified military conscripts". [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/07/22/the_list_the_world_s_worst_healthcare_reforms?page=full]] On the right side of the bus, you can see the third world. Still prop. side has faith. They say "We have proven that this issue can be reduced to an economic one such as that there is really no political or ideological criteria that would influence the price paid for the resource". Desperation can lead to a lower compensation, political alliances, like the one between Cuba and Venezuela can lead to subsidies[[http://www.bnamericas.com/news/oilandgas/Analyst:_Govt_Loses_US*2,62bn_in_Oil_Subsidies_to_Cuba]], and political differences can lead to halt in economic ties and trade as the case between Colombia and Venezuela[[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4268619.stm]][[http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/11/28/venezuela.colombia/index.html]][[http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/11/28/venezuela.colombia/index.html]]. The prop. couldn't see how Actively recruiting will exacerbate brain drain. They find that posed the following contradiction: either poor government open their door for BD or increase controls. There is one more option, that the ruler can open the doors to MP that want and also selectively choosing who leaves, when and for how much. They [also] fail to see the relationship between bad governance and poverty. They argue that "The mistake opposition makes here is [...] to represent the source of their poverty as bad governance". We don't claim poverty is necessarily a consequence of bad governance but rich countries rarely have it, if a rich country gets bad governance, which includes bad administration of the state resources, it could loose its riches. There is the direct link between bad governance and people migrating, now, if you add the plan of the proposition that incentives the brain drain, the situation will worsen because of a further deficit, as we explained in our 4th argument. The Proposition correlates dearth of resources and adverse climate to poverty. However, empirical evidence like earthquake-prone Japan, the Western countries that have bitter winters, Oil-deprived Israel and UAE, etc. vs tropical and resource abundant Africa and Latin America suggests the opposite correlation (adverse climate and scarcity of resources paired with economic success), we however don't think climate is a relevant factor to consider in this debate. They say that it is "feasible but marginal" that countries will deviate resources into other things rather than medical training because of the lack of transparency. They also claim that we agree that their plan is a source of revenue. First, revenue doesn't necessarily means profitability and less when they always express the transaction in terms of the cost as opposed to in terms of the value, it's not profitable to liquidate and asset for its cost because no profit is being made. Second, even if it was marginal, we are alarmed that the proposition thinks it's OK to give money to a corrupt government; but it is actually not marginal, but rather the norm. They asked us to make a mature reflection on abandoning poor countries on the basis that they have corrupt government, but if they care so much about the people and the rights of the individual, how will they ensure the poorer government will invest that money to satisfy its citizens' needs? History shows that the ruling elite is the one that perceives the benefits of the income, so it is definitely better to have the medical personnel that is already there than its corruption-vulnerable monetary equivalent. Besides, since a correlation can be preceived between transparency and GDP per capita[[http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/corruption-vs-gdp-per-capita]], transferring resources from richer to poorer nations roughly amounts to transferring resources from less corrupt to more corrupt countries, thus the plan increases the amount of money falling prey to corruption and hence makes the world economy less efficient. They blame us of been trapped in a dilemma "that is simultaneously opposed to the brain drain and in favor of the status quo". Yes, we don't think the DB is good but no, we aren't really in favor of the SQ, it's just that we prefer it to the proposition plan, because it will worsen an already bad situation and wont solve the problem. Precisely because we know how individual rights are blasted in Third World countries, our main value, above all, is freedom. Yes to stopping brain drain but NOT at the cost of freedom. The real dilemma is on proposition's side, when they say that "brain drain is unacceptable" but they're willing to pay for it. As if money made things right, people who think drugs or prostitution are unacceptable aren't the ones advocating to create a legal market for it. They say that BD is an "anomalous feature from the status quo a loophole that must be closed"... that's a weird thing to say for a team that supports actively recruiting talent away from poorer countries. On the same point, their rebuttal to no point 3, they carelessly intended to quote us as saying, "now the offer of compensation could drive a country to wake up to the reality of brain drain and start taking measures to prevent it", but they forgot (or did they?) to add:¨"which could reduce their freedom. Which in turn would do nothing to solve the real causes of the brain drain". It is not about taking random measures and reducing freedom, but rather tackling the root causes that lead people to leave their country. It is very dangerous and sadly ironic to provide a way for repressive inefficient governments to remain in power using the resources obtained from cashing in on their political expatriates We showed a link between brain drain and ever growing populism, instability and fundamentalism. Prop. wanted to get this "dismissed easily, as history is riddled with cases where populations have doubted their governments, but we have not been such mass migration as the opposition suggested". Sure, except for the Cuban exodus to the US, USSR migration to the West, African legal and illegal immigration to Europe, the Irish emigration, and the people flocking from East Germany to West Germany. All countries where BD deepened and then populism, instability and fundamentalism grew. In any case they are deforming our argument because we say that BD and populism feed of each other. The issue of the Third World and medicines and pharmaceutic patents has been dealt with in our 7th argument. Welcome to the third world, you might want to return home soon or as us, get used to it.