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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (122282)	12/27/2003 8:01:00 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I'll make you another offer I made the correct decision. Even you are not interested in answers to your own questions! Goes to establish how irrelevant your questions were....even by you. You remind those leftists who now are SCREAMING about globalization .... Quite frankly, I see that as a significant distortion. The issue isn't globalization, it's the economic policies that surround globalization. When the US subsidizes the cotton industry to the tune of $4B/year, that is an anti-globalization economic policy. Steel tariffs, lumber tariffs are anti-globalization policies. The "anti-globalization" group made a serious mistake when they took on that label. It isn't at all what they meant. I assume that they thought that people would actually read about what their objections were and conclude that it's the Western world's economic policies of subsidies and tariffs that were at issue. They didn't imagine that they would run into people like you. Now the poor nations are in the running to become as wealthy as the rich nations. Not if the US has anything to say about it. We're trying to keep the third world countries in destitute poverty to keep their labor rates as low as possible. Be careful what you wish for. You may get it. That's something of more concern to you than it is to me. Re: Foreign Aid... Neat table. The US is number 20 nationmaster.com I find that embarassing, but facts are facts. If you're interested in total dollars by country. Then you can have this table. nationmaster.com You could start deducting out foreign aid to Israel and Egypt from the US numbers, since those aren't exactly targetted against third world poverty...but you probably wouldn't want to do that. jttmab