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To: Rajala who wrote (18582)11/19/1998 4:27:00 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
Rajala,

OT - bananas

Re: foreign aid

I am sure there are better way to go about foreign aid that don't distort the market? How about openly proclaiming to the citizens of your country that their money is going to be used for foreign aid, taxing them directly and doing with the money what European "elite" thinks is the right thing.

Isn't it a little arbitrary to decide that if the consumers want to do the "right thing" they have to buy bananas? What if you want to do the right thing but you don't like bananas? What about a person who doesn't want to do the "right thing" but likes bananas?

How about opening the doors to imports from all impoverished countries, without preferences? It would do a lot more than foreign aid or "development aid".

Re: Korean and Iranian passenger plane.

This seems silly, but you are leaving out some important details (as usual)

Shooting down the Korean Airlines plane was deliberate action. The plane was identified, orders were given. It happened in middle of nowhere.

The Iranian plane was a human error. It happened in the middle of war zone. The plane was flying directly at the ship, and it was not identified as a civilian plane.

In short, Russians knew they were killing civilians. Americans did not. If they knew that the plane was civilian, the orders to shoot would not have been given.

Re: Having extremely limited exposure to foreign media you wouldn't know what I'm talking about.

What do you know about my exposure to foreign media?

Joe
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