You know I don't like Bush Keith but, I think you haven't
thought the context of this through. First of all America is a
business nation and Bush has a Masters in Business Administration from
Harvard. In American business you punish those who don't support you
and reward those who do. It is that simple. It may make
lousy government but frankly with our huge tax bill over this war, the idea of a
company bringing in money to another country that isn't sharing doesn't strike
me all that well either. We don't exist for the rest of the
world but for our own people. The justification for this war was an
attack on our own people and for that reason the American public support Bush on
this. What we don't support is corruption and over charging by
American corporations like Halliburton. Halliburton supported
Bush and now they are sacrificing little and making a killing. That
may hurt Bush but your comments are not resonant over here. They are
more anxiety from a distance and speak to your self interest rather than
ours. Its not morality or even good government, in fact its nothing
personal, its just business.
If you don't like it then argue with the market and stop
preaching free trade and TNC's as the saviour of the future. The US
is just a TNC competeing in the world and it doesn't care about any competitor's
market share other than their own. In that Laissez Faire world, the
only security is power and loyalty and if you want that world you can't
complain when power is asserted. That is what I meant when I said
that government as business is a nightmare. You said you didn't get
it and now you are complaining about it. I don't understand
that. I speak English, maybe you should learn to speak a little
Cherokee. Then we could get around these
misunderstandings.
Perhaps it would be good for Europe to do the same
since we both are going to be dealing with each other for a long time in
this cutthroat world that Ricardo, Adam Smith, Henry George, J.S. Mill and
their accolytes have finally given us, not to mention the current
varieties like Milton Friedman, etc. etc. I don't know
whether it is evolutionary in the sense of the brain or just inevitable given
the history of the past thousand years of European systems.
But either way it was predictable. As Harrison Ford said to
Julia Ormond in the movie Sabrina after he had treated her shabbily,
"Don't worry, it was nothing personal, it was just
business." He didn't like it and felt like a cad but felt
perfectly at home in the more's of the business system. Or as
Donald Trump says: "Get Even!" But "getting
even" isn't personal, it just a business strategy to reward those who contibute
to your business and punish those who don't. Personally
I prefir the complexity of Veblin to the whole bunch.
From my standpoint, everything is personal.
That is different.
REH
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