From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 21:14:38 MDT
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> That's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Traditonally,
> if you were importing from a Third World country, you were accused
> of exploitation. Now if you don't, you are accused of starving
> their economy. As usual, I wonder whether it's the same people who
> level opposite accusations...
If exploitation is the opposite of starving their
economy, then clearly exploitation is a good thing.
If free trade is exploitation, then that must be
a good thing too. I have no cognitive dissonance
with any of this.
Naddy, the poor nations must work their way up from
the dust, the same as yours and mine did. Individuals
must work their way up from poverty, the way many of
us did as well. We did it, and they can do it.
spike
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