--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 11/26/05 10:03:13 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > And by how much of that contribution they can > steal. The current "measuring stick" is oil. > > > > > Steal? Let's get real here for a minute. When oil sells for 50 to 80 dollars > a barrel, who is stealing? I see a lot of wealthy nations in the middle east > as well as other parts of the world that were dirt poor before their natural > resource of oil was discovered, tapped and developed. Where would any of > these oil producing nations be if it were not for the industrialized nations of > the world pouring their wealth into them? Or maybe we were supposed to just > pour our wealth into them for nothing in exchange. The worlds economy at this > time is run on oil and everybody benefits from it. The industrialized > nations buy the oil to produce food and other goods that the oil producers can't > produce but buy from us. Nobody is stealing from anybody in this relationship. >
Mostof those countries are STILL dirt poor. The non-Moslems struck deals with one faction over another to get the best control of the resource that we could, to hell with the natives. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
