Re: WOULD'NT IT BE GREAT


Connie wrote:
> "Preacher Mike" <amcardinal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1137430024.322593.253520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Your ignorance is showing.
> >
> > Perhaps, I freely admit for not taking too much note of the
> > politicalspeak so evident in media today. I have been considering the
> > option of Isolationism since my youth. My father was a Isolationist at
> > heart and I remember having several conversations with him, I even
> > considered emigrating to Switzerland as a younger man. As I said, I did
> > not seek conflict in sharing the essay. PM
> >
>
> Point taken. The statement in your post however: (The American people are
> no longer going to pour money into third world Hell-holes and watch those
> government leaders grow fat on corruption), really rankled me since this
> arrogant lie is at the core of all the problems we face as a nation and the
> reason we've become the most despised country in the world overall.

When something gets posted to a public forum, it's bound to be
discussed. Hopefully, it's the ideas that get discussed, and not the
person who posted them. There's just as much reason to post something
you disagree with, as something you agree with, and the poster should
not be expected to claim or disclaim those ideas.

Here's an idea: When does self-reliance become isolationism? Ghandi's
vision of India was a self-sufficient country. In the last few years,
that ideal has been abandoned much to the delight of international
investors and the stock market.

Methinks self-sufficiency is a good thing, and that enlightened
self-interest is also a good thing. When we have too much outside
dependence (say, on Arab oil), we start getting tangled up in all kinds
of business. Life gets complicated.

I'm in no way against foriegn trade, but we should be way more self
sufficient than we are today. Not only do foriegn relations become
touchy (OTOH, we have a greater motivation to be friendly with
countries like China), we also lose jobs for Americans. I'm not against
us buying cars from Japan or a European country, where workers are
treated well, but when we start buying things from countries where
workers are nearly slaves, it is not fair to the workers in developed
countries.

What we should be doing in the world is setting a high standard of
human rights. Instead, we are letting the worst countries lower our own
standards, so we can become more competitive. There are good things
about competition, but it definitely can be carried too far.

The way I see things headed in America, the illegal immigration problem
on the Mexican border might solve itself. We are headed toward a
country that Mexicans will not want to come to.

Globalization is not a new thing. The Constitution addresses foriegn
trade, import tariffs have been a hot topic in many presidential
campaigns. The term "free trade" is just a misleading slogan for a
complicated pile of treaties, quotas, tariffs. Our first principal in
trading with other countries is how this trade will affect the people
of both countries. Not how it will affect the stock market. We could be
improving the conditions of the people in countries we trade with --
and international trade advocates will tell you those Nike factories
are great places to work. But I really don't see how a Mexican corn
farmer is better off, now that his farm is out of business, working at
a border factory, or having to sneak across the border to wash dishes
in Chicago.

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