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To: craig crawford who wrote (1106)	3/16/2002 5:02:40 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) of 1643

Britains "height" of the Empire was about 1910 imho. WW1 killed it. There was also strong movements to treat human beings as equals. Britain is a fairly small island with limited land. overpopulation.com I just downloaded recent population densities for Europe and sorted them in descending order. Monaco 16,410.3 Gibraltar 4,461.5 Malta 1,187.5 Jersey 767.2 Netherlands 464.2 San Marino 416.7 Belgium 336.6 Guernsey 335.1 United Kingdom 238.9 Germany 234.8 Liechtenstein 200 Italy 193.1 Switzerland 182.5 Luxembourg 164.3 Andorra 144.4 Moldova 132.3 Czech Republic 130.8 Poland 126.8 Denmark 125.8 Albania 121.6 Armenia 120.5 Serbia 119.1 Slovakia 110.5 Hungary 110.5 Portugal 108 France 107.8 United States?? United States 29.5 The EEC can now easily overproduce food. The grain farms in the UK are the amongst the most efficient in the world. France whines about our farms in fact -g-. The EEC had some embarrassing times with "butter mountains" and "wine lakes" etc but farmers are now paid to under produce. The whole food thing thing is weird with subsidies etc. Same in USA I understand. Back to 19th century topic. That cheap 19th century USA corn would have got sold somewhere, and the country that ate that corn would have an advantage over it's rivals in providing a cheap labor force to compete in the industrial revolution. Britain did well in that role. I not totally against trade barriers. If the USA steel tariff was immediately invested in upgrading the USA steel industry to make it really competitive world wide, then yes that would be good for everyone. That does not happen though. The bureaucrats take over, politics gets mixed in, and all conspire to make a royal mess of everything. That tariff money will do harm and little good. "Dumping" and unregulated trade, guilty of all sorts of things, will also conspire to do bad things because individual nations do not want to form an effective UN and WTO.

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