D and N and I know nationalism is not good
arthur who says so??? -----Original Message----- From: Darryl and Natalia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] We're waiting, Mr Snow Now we see the light. Here is another twist. The British Columbia Provincial government is currently placing the B.C. Hydro (publicly owned) or what remains of it on the world market as part of the NAFTA free trade scenario. The highest bidder, of course, is from the U.S. Nothing personal and I know nationalism is not good but I do not wish to be part of THIS United States of America. Thirty years ago, I had other notions, then Watergate hit and we were still in the Trudeau era, so I changed my mind. Really good times for the arts then Ray. Anyway, our governments are selling off the public trusts in this country at an alarming rate with no consideration of what the original intent was in setting up these services. Manufacturing is one thing but raw resources or the basics of the community life is another. It all goes along with the "14 points...", Darryl P.S. Hydro rates are expected to rise 30 - 60% but, after seeing the same occurrence in Ontario, I expect the rates to double. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] We're waiting, Mr Snow > Keith Hudson wrote: > [snip] > > In a report out today ML has opined that the > > weak-dollar has already added 2% to nominal growth in the US. > [snip] > > The best thing about a weak dollar is that it puts pressure > on Americans to buy inferior American products and it > gives people in the rest of the world incentive to buy > inferior American products. > > I wish I could buy American *all the time* --> BECAUSE > AMERICAN WOULD BE BEST. When will we shame the Japanese, > the Germans and the Swiss about the inferior quality of > their prodsucts? Until then, we'll have to rely > on a weak dollar to get people to buy inferior American > products --> or, even better, get them to lower their > standards so they don't want anything better. > > When I was a child, "Japanese" meant junk. When I > was a young adult (1972), I still thought > a Datsun B-210 was a wingless kamikazi. Now I > wonder whether maybe even a Kia is better than a > Buick. (I would not even think of buying a Buick > instead of a Corolla, because I consider the relation of > Buick to Toyotas to be simliar (remember the > analogy questions on the SAT?) -- > > Buick is to Toyota as movie is to film. (I.e., > it's the ersatz kitsch nauga- version of it.) > > In an area which happens to interest me, fine mechanical > watches, America once made the best in the world. The > Waltham Stone Movement is a wonder to behold, e.g. --Then the > Swiss undersold us (ref.: "Who killed Cock Robin?", in > David Landes, _Revolution in Time_, Harvard Univ. Press). > > America *can* make as high quality as anyone else in > the world, but in the new global economy we have > constructed, we have made sure we no longer can > afford to (The Invisible Hand, AKA The Mo9nty Python > Boot, stomps down on the world). --No wonder > a gelding won the Kentucky Fried Chicken and the > Preakness: America has castrated its soul, so > it is appropriate that it wins with a castrato. > > It makes me sick and disgusted. FTFM (F-ck The > Free Market). > > \brad mccromci > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
