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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Red Heeler who wrote (491179)	11/11/2003 10:33:25 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Wrong, wrong, wrong! Think of a ship with many watertight compartments. A leak occurs and the leaking compartment is sealed off to prevent catastrophe. Now think of that same sinking ship without compartments . . So if we aren't supposed to have "globalization", and somebody in Switzerland invents a drug that can cure a horrible disease that your child is suffering from, should we simply keep that medicine in the watertight compartment that is Switzerland and not use it (at whatever price you can agree to pay to the supplier and the supplier can agree to charge you) to save your child's life? If the medicine is invented here in the US, should we keep it for ourselves and let everyone else who needs it suffer and die? What about other "necessities" of life? Should we stop trading Coca-Cola for Belgian and Swiss chocolates? Why should those products leave their watertight compartments? If the people in your compartment make lousy chocolates, should you just eat them anyway, or maybe have a stalk of broccoli instead?