On 11 Dec 2003 16:21:41 GMT ackatyu (Wdtabor) wrote:

In article d4RBb.29632$ZE1.26228@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes:

On 10 Dec 2003 19:14:07 GMT ackatyu (Wdtabor) wrote:

In article kivBb.29415$ZE1.25509@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes:


I think you don't know what some US corporations are doing in other
"emerging" countries.

Providing a means for them to emerge.


I was talking about this emerge from the dictionary:
"to rise from an obscure or inferior position or condition"

So you assume that they are in an inferior position or condition
and that's part of the problem. And you must assume no matter
what the corporations to it's progress. But that's unfortunately
not true.


Inferior is a loaded word.


What's loaded about it?


Emerging nations and developed nations trade. They trade what they can do
better for what others do better.


But the process lays waste to the "emerging" nation in social costs and
environmental costs. But what do you care as long as you can buy your
goods cheaply. You don't have to look at the consequences.



We raise wheat better and develop technology better, they provide cheap labor
better.

No we subsidize our wheat farmers better and enforce higher tariffs on
competing technology better.




We can't buy jet engines from or electric generators from emerging nations
because they don't sell them. We buy cheap labor from them because that is
what, for now, they have to offer. The alternative is to not buy what they have
to sell and let them do without our wheat and technology.


See above.


That isn't helping them.

So you think we're helping them and I don't think we're helping them.
They should be helping themselves but we're trying to drag them along
with us whether they want to come or not.



R. Hubbell

Don

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