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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (2130)	1/18/2003 8:22:08 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

China is a very lucrative trading partner with the US. But we're not really talking about China. We're not going to go in and rape China of its resources, are we? But please do pray tell about how the diamonds, the gold, the silver, the copper, the timber, the oil, etc. get to market and who, more than not, has been the 'middleman' for such deals over the past 50 years.

To: Machaon who wrote (2130)	1/18/2003 8:37:14 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Don\t know about you, but I regularly pay some 10% more for many products knowing that that 10% goes to those making the products. (also for the fly I found in the Kenyan brewed coffee a couple of months ago, good protein content) Who cares about 10% anyway, except the middle man, importer, exproter and obviously the one making the product, who usually get only 3-4%. Simple stuff, if one thinks about it.. Just like a regular Norwegian who pays 17 times more in foreign aid than USA. (plus having had a long time to cooperate with russian oil companies, ouch, while keeping the cod alive in this part of the atlantic)