Theory, and the discussion of such forms the basis of intellectual advancement. Theoretical issues are not reality. Individuals attempt to understand the implications of proposed actions through extended discussion of theoretical alternatives. It is often the case that people neither support nor desire the theoretical actions that they may propose and discuss. Economics has the strange roll of being not only a most theoretical science, but also one in which theoretical concepts can often be introduced into reality with the greatest of ease.
Tobin, a more intelligent man than you or I could ever hope to be, looked at a practical problem; excessive movements of funds effecting economic outcomes, and proposed a reasonable answer. Utilization of a very low tax on transactions to discourage excessive movements of funds to profit from very small differentials. In addition he proposed that the revenues of such a tax be utilized to reduce poverty in the least developed of countries.
This is straight forward. If you can not follow it I suggest you sue the college or high school you last attended.
That problem and many like it will become evident as global trade expands. People will discuss ways of dealing with these problems, and this will result in an organization to deal with these problems. Its the nature of trade, power, compromise and cooperation. Individualism has nothing to do with it.
South America is a cesspool of terror. Argentina had the period of Disappearances. Chile in post Allende was a nightmare, Paraguay had its dictator that was fond of dissapearing people, Bolivia has a history of exterminating its native population, as Brazil, Peru, Venezuela. Peru has seen left and right terror squads. Columbia is just one large vat of terror, Surinam has had a history of killing natives. Guatemala called its exterminations a war. Mexico has killed thousands of Natives. Come on, xyz, you are supposed to know about the place..... terror is not just a leftist tool, in Latin America its a political assumption.
You will not find such a bloody record of terror in the Arab world. Arabs do not understand the concept of terror when related to the extraordinary accomplishments of Latin American cultures. Only the Pol Pot were better at using organized terror than the Latin Americans.
Quite frankly any one of the people who straps a bomb on their body and walks into a restaurant has extraordinary fortitude and belief in their cause. They die to fight. And the people with rockets and tanks? We don't condemn the tank rounds that kill 3 or 4 family members in a hovel in some town right out of the Bible?
The Palestinians will not be defeated because they are willing to die for what they believe in. And it appear that enough of them have that willingness to counter all the rounds that tanks can fire into refugee camps. Pretty damn amazing. Pretty damn impressive. 16 year old girls with more courage than you or I will ever have, have ever had in total. It ain't slick but it sure is effective. And quite rankly it makes the death squads that Latin American Machismo butchers are so proud of look like the cowardly lowlife scum that they are.
You despise what you should fear. You ignore what you should despise.
People with attitudes such as yours are easy to defeat because they will never see it coming. Even when they get scared enough to go out and start rounding up their neighbors and shooting them in the back of head....that's the Latin way, no? |
