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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (26240)	5/21/2002 1:06:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

the british empire tried unilateral free trade beginning in the last half of the 19th century it proved to be a disaster. The move started earlier then that, and was a great force at increasing British prosperity. The British empire fell because of nationalist thoughts among the non British members of the empire and because of the world wars. you mean to tell me that you don't see the push toward world government? No major push. There are people who are pushing that way but probably less people and less influential people then was the case after world war 2. i am not suggesting the wto itself is world government, but it could certainly be called an arm of world government. you have the UN, IMF, World Bank, ICC, WTO, etc. which could all replace our branches of government. The WTO and those other organizations could be an arm of a world government if there was an world government for them to be an arm of. so you are against our membership in the wto? you're my second convert in as many days. Not against it, but I see problems with it. I'd rather have free trade with less bureaucracy but I think that even with the WTO free trade is no longer advancing much, and I think the WTO is better then protectionism. Tim