Harry Pollard wrote:
> You "don't advocate the butter mountains" - you merely advocate the
> restrictionist policies that create the butter mountains.
Neither. The EU's butter mountains are a result of corrupt concentrations
of corporate power -- something that I'm the last one to advocate!
> You say I "advocate the food transfer insanity" and again you miss the point.
>
> I don't advocate any insanity. I merely think that people should be allowed
> to trade freely, without your blokes sticking their noses in where they
> aren't wanted.
I see: starving African people *want* to export food to the EU, right?
If "Free" Trade is what the people want, then why does the WEF, WTO, G8
etc. have to meet in bunkers and secret greenrooms, without any democratic
control or legitimation ?
> I recall a particularly interesting exchange back in the forties. Trees
> were cut down in Norway and sent to Britain to be sliced into match sticks.
> Then they were sent - I think to Sweden - to be tipped. Then they were sent
> back to Britain to be packaged and sold.
>
> Why? Because that was the best way to do it.
^^^^
"Best" by which criteria? "Best" for whom? E.g. for the people who live
along the highways on which the trucks are taking the stuff back and forth?
(Btw, the EU is full of such examples.)
> In a socialist economy, they would still be in committee deciding for the
> consumers what they should have, how they should have it - and even whether
> they should be allowed to have it.
At issue is not a socialist economy but an economy that does NOT allow a
tiny minority of bullies to have their ways of profit maximization at the
cost of everyone else and call it "Free" Trade.
Chris
P.S.: Your email program use is symptomatic of your attitude of squandering
and incompetence: always full-quotes of the message you reply to, and
then the whole thing once more as HTML code.
