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To: Horgad who wrote (18507)	9/14/2000 8:14:43 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

while we're at it: uk.news.yahoo.com imagine what happens when he really refuses to accept dollars for oil...they'll nuke him...

To: Horgad who wrote (18507)	9/14/2000 11:10:50 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<I would say a good deal of that comes from exploiting the poor of other countries to a greater extent then the workers in this country are exploited. That way even the poor in this country can live at a standard as high as what the middle-class in some countries live at...while the rich can continue to live like kings. > But IMO much of this is hindsight... for decades much of europe refused to let jobs flow to the third world for fear of exporting their industries. In reality it was THEY that tried to keep jobs for the middle class at home at expense of the world's poorest. It is only now that the income disparity in this country has exploded that flaws in this 'open system' have become so obvious. IMO the U.S. free trade push has been the biggest boon for the third world in history... while Europe feared for themselves. DAK