----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:21:37 -0800 To: "eric stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Non-price competition > Eric, > > Unfortunately, you have it the wrong way round. > > "Fair trade" means that someone meddles with trade to provide benefits for > someone at the expense of the traders.
I was actually referring to the words 'fair' and 'free' themselves, specifically trying to avoid the politically charged phrases. Granted, citing such phrases was not, perhaps, the best way to do it. To many, 'free trade' refers to my right to subjugate whole peoples and destroy whole economies for my right to more bucks.
> > "Free trade" means that no-one meddles with the exchanges between people. > They may exchange, cooperate, interact without interference.
This is not how it is practiced. Joseph Stiglitz is the former CHIEF ECONOMIST for the World Trade Organization. Here is what he says:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12652
Stiglitz "was inside the game, a member of Bill Clinton's cabinet as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers."
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also see:
Bechtel Corp. vs. Bolivia's Poor http://www.globalizaction.org/Bechtel.htm
I will not argue the TRUE meaning of FREE TRADE, merely how the phrase is used. Were I to argue about the actual meaning of such, I would also be forced, in fairness, to elucidate the REAL meaning of Marxism as well.
It is my view that neither true democracy nor true socialism have ever been employed, both requiring an active, informed, voting public to function at all. It IS interesting to note, however, that Cuba's literacy rate is significantly higher than America's.
For info on that, see: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Cuba%22%2C%22literacy+rate%22%2Chigher
I am a can of worms type of guy. Fair warning and CHRISTMAS GREETINGS!
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