Message 90/103
Date: 09-Apr-03 @ 06:47 PM -
RE: Ironic
I'm jumpin on the last car of this train for this... sorry, I'm an ass...
If America pulled back, closed it's borders, minded it's own business:
Lettuce would cost us $4.00 a head. Jeans would cost us $500 a pair. Shoes? well, most of us would be barefoot! We would all be living out a medieval nightmare in the US because our ENTIRE economic superiority gig is a shell game! We live on the backs of those in other countries who are forced to live as they do by the circumstance of their poverty. History will remember our society as a gluttonous, heavy handed tyranny that lived high on slave labor and war attrocities!
Raising the water so everyone's boat can float is a bunch of bullshit. the metaphor is better stated as lowering everyone's boats to meet the water! And I'm curious to see how long fat, apathetic Americans (hell, industrialized westerners for that matter) would put up with it before the were happy to send their children off to die for their comfort!
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