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| DATE | 2017-01-19 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Word of the Year for 2016
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On 01/17/2017 05:10 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> By the time the orange disaster's protectionism, dumbass 'Build That
> Wall'-type fixations, and erratic everything tanks the economy in 2018,
> it'll be a little late to blame his predecessors.
OK - so just to pick this one item out of a long list of grievances, and
in the spirit of dialog, I want to say that I've never been in favor of
large trade agreements with 3rd world countries on moral grounds. We
are just exporting the cost of employing people fairly and safely by
using free trade as an end run around basic labor laws, and
environmental laws that have been worked out with enormous struggle and
compromise is liberal Democracies, and thereby enabling two-bit despots
(included in that group is the communist party of China) by enriching
them, making the world overall MUCH less safe, and far less free.
Imperialism and Colonials, IMO, has a better moral foundation, despite
the inherent problems of the White Man's Burden. I prefer my despots
under my thumb and dependent on me rather than peers on the world stage
and economic competitors.
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