Profit and loss

Teufelsdröckh florentius at mac.com
Thu May 3 12:08:13 CDT 2001


calbert at tiac.net wrote:
> 
> jbor:
> 
> > > Whether or not the amassed thugs breaking stock
> > > market and government office windows and assaulting police are
> > > actually lobbying against low refugee intake quotas or
> > > genetically-modified foods or environmental destruction or union
> > > disempowerment they have banded together
> > > under the anti-globalisation banner and are in fact *serving the
> > > interests of* extreme nationalist and corporate factions within the
> > > developed nations
> > > who desire to retain current tariffs and levels of trade
> > > protectionism. And,
> > > it is these trade policies which have been and are crippling the
> > > economies of developing nations and which are the cause of the
> > > immense gulf in living
> > > standards between the First and Third Worlds.
> 
> Sorry, it's just that the above is so brilliant as to merit repeating.

This is about as brilliant as concluding Wendell Willkie was an
isolationist because isolationists also opposed Roosevelt. Thugs, indeed!

--
Diogenes



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