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| Why world trade agreement stalled |
| 2008-07-31 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 Free trade helps the US citizens because it means we get You either import their goods with the risk that some will be toxic or else you end up importing their people with the risk some will be toxic. It's easier to to handle the effects of toxic goods, IMHO. |
| Posted by: tipper 2008-07-31 19:54 |
| #7 Free trade helps the US citizens because it means we get |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-07-31 18:17 |
| #6 All the third world really has to trade is (a) farm goods (b) labor. If Europe and the USA are gonna block specific farm goods and pay the third world aid instead (to protect our own farmers of course) and the labor can simply move into the first world illegally. What is in it for the various third world nations? Free trade helps the US citizens because it means we pay the lowest cost for an item. There are times to act of course but we don't really need formal agreements. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-07-31 11:26 |
| #5 Bigjim gets it, too bad American politicians don't. We have created a situation where we lose everything just so other nations can have something. If grandpa did that to our family, I'd have killed the bastard. It is a liberal idea, which like all other liberal ideas only advances the advantaged, while speaking for the good of all. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-07-31 10:55 |
| #4 "Time and again at the Geneva meetings, China and India reiterated how they could not lower their barriers, but insisted we must lower ours." Yup, pretty much par for the course. For them, negociation means that you come to them, hat in hand, and they graciously deign to speak with you. For generous contributions, you can expect to receive a pittance, as is your due as an outsider. The real miracle is that this wasn't accepted by the US diplomats - usually they're all over crap like this. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-07-31 10:53 |
| #3 We seem to have more "trade agreements" than we need right now. I've had to watch as these "trade agreements" have sent most of the manufacturing sector from the midwest states to places like mexico and pakistan. Now for the final nail in our coffin, the worldwide trade agreement. I'm sure the fortune 500 dorks love it, they'll send every last goddamned job we have left to bangladesh or vienam. This so-called global economy that was sold to us in the 80's has never brought anything that it promised. I'm sure it has made a few thousand people rich beyond our wildest dreams, but other than that, it sucks. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-31 08:22 |
| #2 The fact that the deal died shows you that the emerging market economies have arrived. They don't have to make deals they don't like or that aren't in their interests. |
| Posted by: Classer 2008-07-31 07:51 |
| #1 The "developing" countries are all take and no give. They need to learn that doesn't work anywhere, and particularly not in international trade. |
| Posted by: Sheba Sheamble5056 2008-07-31 01:52 |