http://max256.bearstrong.net/2008/07/28/before-you-form-an-opinion-about-global-trade/ 256 words or less - or your money back! Sat, 04 May 2013 17:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://max256.bearstrong.net/2008/07/28/before-you-form-an-opinion-about-global-trade/#comment-48 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:45:15 +0000 http://max256.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/before-you-form-an-opinion-about-global-trade#comment-48 Even putting the whole world on equal basis involves making things more difficult for someone. For instance, if you want more free trade, (I do), you’ll have to be willing to sacrifice some of the industries we’re currently protecting, such as farmers. So our farmers are behind everyone else, (even though they’re included in the consumers group). And then a developing nation asks for protection to shelter their own industries until they’re ready to compete with ours. Then what?

]]> http://max256.bearstrong.net/2008/07/28/before-you-form-an-opinion-about-global-trade/#comment-49 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:28:00 +0000 http://max256.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/before-you-form-an-opinion-about-global-trade#comment-49 Do you have to rank them? what’s wrong with ‘all men are created equal?’ You shouldn’t <>have<> to support one group or the other, it should be possible to search for the equillibrium where farmers in one land has the advantage in that marked, to minimize long distance freight. It seems unhealthy to me that dutch onion pushes out west-african farmers from their local markeds. The same goes for botswanian meat being half the price of norwegian here in Trondheim.

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