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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (32837)11/26/2004 12:47:38 AM
From: marcos  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 39344
 
You don't like loggers? - you live in the biggest ugliest clearcut in the province! ... who do you think made that for you, liberal arts majors? ... but for loggers, you'd be huddled up under some old cedar snag right now, with the rain dripping down your neck [if a windfall hadn't nailed you first] ... ever try wiping your ass with plastic? ... which is not a sustainable practice, by the way, as plastic comes from non-renewable fossil fuels, ahem

The chinese do take a fair bit of our wood, lots of other resources, and they'll take more in the future no doubt, but it is a concern that they buy from us raw materials, and sell us finished goods .... we're exporting jobs when we let that happen, but 'twas always thus, we are hewers of wood, drawers of water [bottled only, if you please, no pipelines no tankers]