Re: Union Millwrights

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:42:43 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
<huntres23@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
NB: Your qualification "if it [capital] has no place to go" is
the critical one.

If you check all the free trade pacts, capital movement is one of
the first things discussed and guaranteed.

Yeah, except with China and India. They've both dragged their feet on that
issue.
<snip>
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Showing again how much difference having national leaders in
your government, industry and society with memories of living
under foreign occupation, or at least domination/exploitation, of
your country, society, economy, etc. can make.

No "citizens of the world" in those governments, having been
there and done that!


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
============
Merchants have no country.
The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
U.S. president. Letter, 17 March 1814.
.

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