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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (48484)	4/11/2009 3:18:51 PM
From: Webster Groves	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217825

Actually, Haim is right, because both China and Australia have severe draughts. In China, it's Snow Draught: money.aol.com Severe underperformer in quality, I would say, but outsells Budlite (and radiator fluid I might add). In Australia, we are talking about Carlton of course: thebackpacker.net Give the latter a try and you will forget dreams of growing up and becoming a word policeman. wg

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (48484)	4/12/2009 2:40:09 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217825

Marshall Plan was trade finance. The long term health of the US economy was dependent on trade, however, as continued prosperity would require markets to export these goods. USD 13 billion in economic aid were given to help the recovery of the European countries post WWII. After the war, US factories quickly retooled to produce consumer goods, and the scarcity of the war years was replaced by a boom in consumer spending. Marshall Plan aid would largely be used by the Europeans to buy manufactured goods and raw materials from the United States. The G20 is nothing less than a gigantic Marshall Plan encompassing the whole world. Emerging markets will do at Gargantuan scale what Europe did.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (48484)	4/12/2009 2:51:54 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217825

Favored Canada, screwed Argentina. US picked winners after WWII. Canada, like the United States, was little damaged by the war and in 1945 was one of the world's largest economies. The Canadian economy had long been more dependent than the American one on trade with Europe, and after the war there were signs that the Canadian economy was struggling. In April 1948, the U.S. Congress passed the provision in the plan that allowed the aid to be used in purchasing goods from Canada. The new provision ensured the health of that nation's economy as Canada made over a billion dollars in the first two years of operation.[82] This contrasted heavily with the treatment Argentina, another major economy dependent on its agricultural exports with Europe, received from the ECA, as the country was deliberately excluded from participation in the Plan due to political differences between the U.S. and then-president Perón. This would damage the Argentine agricultural sector and help to precipitate an economic crisis in the country.[83] en.wikipedia.org