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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 05:30 PM Original message |
It's now clear: neoliberalism and "free trade" are KILLING the world's poor |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Big surpise |
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Big Pappa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Anyone who doesn't ISN'T a Democrat" |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 12:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. He's speaking for just about all of us. How doest it feel? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 05:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. "I've got mine, fuck everybody else", but they hate us for our freedom? n/t |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yeah, south Asia and China and Brazil and southeast Asia have gone to hell. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 10:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. The rich get richer |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I know you don't give a shit about this but...I believe kids should be in school, not work, just... |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 11:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Fine. Then let's work for schools. In the meantime, let's not curse what has helped. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 11:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Just because the GDP increases in a nation, doesn't mean that everyone in that nation is getting... |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 02:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Except what you describe isn't what is happening. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 03:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. If that is your argument, its an extremly weak one... |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 04:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Nay, he is using constant 2000 dollars. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 04:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. We aren't talking about trade, but free trade, two different yet related things... |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:02 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. However labeled, recent global trade has done much good outside OECD. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 04:02 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. I never said that Globalization sucks, but Globalization AS PRACTICED NOW, sucks... |
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Adelante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 04:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. China goods are killing Mexico |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 12:12 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I'm not "cursing trade" I'm cursing "free trade" |
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OnionPatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 08:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Seems like a lot of people don't see the distinction |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 01:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. The internal distribution of wealth within developing countries has changed very little |
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illinoisprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-27-07 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. real democrats are not into free trade and want american jobs here. |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
11. Killing as in murder/homicide/etc. Literally. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 07:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. As in these lyrics by Bruce Cockburn: |
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Norrin Radd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 04:04 AM Response to Original message |
13. k+r |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think there must be a word for it. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
15. Free trade is not only making the poor richer (see India), |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 08:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. "Free" trade has actually worsened the situation of many in China and India |
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BornagainDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 03:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. You got nothing to back this up. It is all Right-Wing ideology |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 07:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. Trade is fine. But it should be FAIR trade, not the falsely termed "free" trade. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 05:55 AM Response to Reply #15 |
31. LOL! |
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Larry Ogg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
18. Corporate free trade policy imposed on third world countries looks like this. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
20. They are still democrats |
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creeksneakers2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
28. Trade is great |
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Agnostic_Jihad (23 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 06:43 AM Response to Original message |
32. Your post is too vague |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 07:06 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. the desire to protect workers |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-30-07 05:59 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. You do realize that a world where all power went to "transnational corporations" |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
34. Globalization and Free Trade impact Americans the most |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 03:28 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Yet our corporations dictate the prices of everything we need, and they are not willing |
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