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Hello Robert - 

CA>> It seems industrialized nations have taken advantage of
CA>> other nations and obtained natural resources for much less
CA>> than they were worth for quite some time. 

RS> "Taken advantage of other nations"? 

Surely you jest. 

RS> If they (we) "obtained natural resources for much less than
RS> they were worth", isn't that because they were sold for
RS> much less than they were worth? If they WERE sold for less
RS> than they're worth, isn't that the fault of the seller? 

The reality is that a large well financed standing army makes
these negotiations tend to favor our side of the table. There
would've been no Korean war if not for gold, no Viet Nam if not
for oil, no Desert Storm if not for oil, and no worrying about
Saddam if not for oil. The USA is the 500 lb gorilla and it
wants to be fed. 

CA>> Not just the USA but all industrialized nations. I would,
CA>> of course, prefer that everything I had to buy was as
CA>> cheap as possible but OTOH I don't like thinking that
CA>> other peoples must suffer to make that possible. 

RS> How do you figure that "other peoples must suffer to make
RS> that possible"? 

Again, you jest. There are 14 million people (mainly women and
children) who are expected to starve to death in the next six
months in South Africa and we are spending money to harass
Saddam (again). 

Watch PBS for a few documentaries showing the living conditions
in other countries or read magazines showing GM workers in
Mexico with open sewage draining in ditchs around their homes
(shacks the size of large toolsheds) while GM pays them $2 US
per hour. 

CA>> Business never has a sense of when enough is enough and
CA>> will pay pennies for what they sell for hundreds of
CA>> dollars with no second thoughts. 

RS> Isn't this the way with everything? 

Well yes it has been in the past. The strong survive and the
weak are killed and eaten. Is this necessary? 

RS> What something is worth is dependent upon what the buyer
RS> will pay and what the seller will take - nothing more. Why
RS> would they have "second thoughts"? 

The 'negotiations' are done under duress. 

Not wanting to see that we use our military as a negotiating
tool is understandable. It's an embarassment. Great Britain
managed it's economy the same way for centuries until it could
no longer muster a large enough army and then went bankrupt. GB
has been bankrupt for over a decade now maybe two decades. They
do not know how to compete in the market place they never had
to. 

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