With the same act, I would be supporting a new class of micro-entrepreneurs creating a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, rather than one of aid-dependence.

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Funded individual pensions liberate citizens, especially the less well-off, from dependence on the state in retirement, and replace that dependence with financial self-determination.

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The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.

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