RE: Free Trade Benefits Everyone Re: *DO* we share a civilization?

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Thursday, August 02, 2001 4:04 AM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: Free Trade Benefits Everyone Re: *DO* we share a
> civilization?

> >One day a man in a big Mercedes came,
> 
> Jeroen, this reflects a distrubting prejudice against drivers of
> Mercedes.

No it doesn't. Admit it, John, you just don't like it because the man was
driving a EUROPEAN car instead of an AMERICAN car.


> You never mentioned that this man has made a small fortune by providing
> cheap lighting to the citizens of nearby Crackerton, Montgomery County.
> He also used a sizable portion of his profits to sponsor a wilderness
> purchase by the Nature Conservancy.

Both are irrelevant. Hans can't buy food or pay the rent with someone else's
money, and the Nature Conservancy doesn't pay his bills either.


> >Hans doesn't see how he benefits from losing his job. Can you explain
> >to him that he's better off now that his job and a good part of his 
> >income have vanished?
> 
> This is too easy.

Well, then provide a REAL answer, not some mumbo-jumbo about other people,
other towns and what the government did 200 years ago. Heck, you didn't
provide *any* answer as to why he is now better off than he was before.


Jeroen

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