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To: lurqer who wrote (34789)	1/12/2004 3:55:07 AM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) of 89467

ld- yep. i missed the first story because of feetsballs. i've been hearing it for three days anyway and knew it since forever (but i still wanted to see it). i liked the other two that i did watch and reacted the same as you. america is so NOT READY to hear that there's a global economy and good old capitalism is calling the shots on global integration faster than a social movement ever could. bill clinton understands this all too well and was constantly explaining to us how america could play a very sucessful role in the transition. it may be too late now. i'm not sure if any of the current candidates see it very clearly. maybe they do but they're sure not talking about it -- probably for fear of losing popularity with voters. the cheapest labor in the world is going to get the jobs. the bright spots are -- that products and services are going to be cheaper and the third world populations will get an economic boost -- but there's going to be the age old monopoly problem and corporate greed still to be dealt with and it's got to be done with international law. capitalism is a great motivator and offers huge rewards to the best entrepreneurs but the end result is that eventually one entity ends up with all the assets. maybe the key is to tax free enterprise enough that it pays for society's basic necessities but not so much that it destroys the incentive to profit. that's an extremely hard balance to strike and doing it on a global scale is not yet possible. americans are so NOT READY to compete with asia and latin america for jobs... but i don't know how it can be said any more clearly -- "Geography is history". nationalism and war is no solution... "it's the economy, stupid." <g> humanity and civilization still have a lot of growing to do. it should be a very interesting century. -ep

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