Chris, Never a finer example of the use and misuse of words. Trade happens between people. Protection and a I looked up your URLS and found the errors, commissions, and omissions of government.
These have nothing to do with Free Trade Government is the enemy of Free Trade. Please don't describe their machinations - then blame it on Free Trade. It is precisely because they want to control the economy that they have made such a mess of things. Free Trade is the absence of control over our exchanges. Unilateral Free Trade is what the US should do. That is, don't bother what other countries do, just drop our trade restrictions. Surely, you must wonder why we won't let a third world country sell to us? If they can supply better goods at a cheaper price, it would seem sensible to let them. Yet, we keep out their goods, thereby depriving American consumers of goods they want. Then, they give "aid" to the countries we have just harmed. So the consumer is screwed twice, as it is our taxes that are being given away. So, Chris, don't mix up the depredations of government with a world without barriers either to goods, or people. Harry ___________________________________________________________ Christopher wrote: >Keith Hudson wrote: > > Whatever else may be said about the unique qualities of mankind, the > > activity of trade between two culturally disparate groups -- who may even > > hate each other on other matters -- is certainly one of them. Amazing > > examples of this occurred in the Bosnian war a few years ago when Muslims > > and Serbs would be fighting each other savagely one day, and trading > > essential foodstuffs with each other the next. > >It is a sick irony that Keith mentions this example, because it was the >so-called "Free Trade" (IMF policies) that had brought these people into >that desperate situation in the first place. >(see http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9904a/yugodismantle.html > and http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew22.htm ) ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 352-2242 *******************************
