Chris, I have no idea what you mean by free traders - you seem confused.
I'll try again. Free trade means that a country removes the tariffs, quotas, and dumping laws that prevent goods entering the country. That's all. You seem to have great difficulty understanding such a simple and reasonable idea. Such things as health regulations aren't touched. Why should they be? Tariffs, quotas, and dumping laws exist to protect the people you quite rightly call "coercers". Removing them takes away some of their power to coerce. Not all of it - major coercive powers still exist. All free trade does is to increase the size of the cake. How this larger cake is distributed is another matter. It is better to take things one at a time. Being against this larger cake is a Luddite idea - just as they essentially tried to limit production by breaking machines so do protectionists try to limit production with their "bought and paid for" legislation. The neo-cons, whom you dislike, are with you on this. They want managed trade as fervently as their socialist friends. (They may not be friends, but their views on managed trade is the same.) We Liberals have fighting against the Conservatives and Socialists for well over a century and always socialists and conservatives have adopted the same policy - though with different names. We have been fighting for Liberty and Justice for All. Seems to me that the Conservatives spend so much time on freedom, they have none left for justice, whereas the socialists concentrate on justice to the exclusion of freedom. In any event, Both start wide and move towards the center - where freedom diminishes and justice disappears. Harry ******************************* Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************* > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:futurework- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Avian Flu report > > Ed Weick wrote: > > Chris, in advanced economies, even the predator class (as you put > it) must > > conform to regulations set out by officials responsible for public > health. > > The animal to human pandemic danger is strongest where there is > no > > regulatory system or only a very poor one, and large numbers of > people > > live in close proximity with their animals, as in parts of China, > where > > people have been catching something from pigs and chickens. > > Yep, and the Free Traders usually aim to remove or weaken > regulations, > but in this report's conclusion they suddenly turn coats, or so they > say... > as long as the Tax Payer will foot the bill, that's okay with them. > (see my 2nd posting in this thread) > > Chris > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the > keyword > "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
