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11.17.2003
The Giant Sucking Sound, Part 2? Forbes.com: US sugar, citrus groups want to escape FTAA talks: "'If we negotiate away our sugar import tariff ... we are going to destroy the U.S. sugar industry. We'd be swamped with subsidized foreign sugar,' said Jack Roney, an economist for the American Sugar Alliance." The sucking sound returns. No, I'm not talking about losing jobs to Mexico. What I'm refering to is the simple concept of vacuum. Mr. Roney of the Sugar Alliance talks about subsidized sugar destroying American production. But what is subsidy? Can we really expect to have a system where there are no influencing factors. To do so would be to assume that there will never be any government intervention. And even the Republicans, the party that most wants to put this free trade system in place has to exist in the political ether where rule number one is pleasing your voters. Government tweaking of the economy are the tools of the trade for wannabe political candidates. What we are seeing is the immovable object meeting the object in motion. Free trade will lose this battle. What we might end up with is some compromised system of trade offs. Which in reality is all we can expect to get. Its a shame that we've already subjected some third world countries to the flawed system when there were clear indications that we would come to this point. Will there be protests, probably. Will there be weird shenanigans by police and government? Yeah, listen up: Civil rights groups are incensed about an ordinance the Miami City Commission passed last week barring a range of potential weapons from public gatherings that some civil liberty experts say violates free-speech rights. That last part is a bit extreme, "any length of metal, plastic or other similer hard or stiff material" seems open to intepretation. They've already arrested a man who was acting as a witness and was not breaking any laws. I always advocate non-violence, and so do most of the people who are involved in these protest movments. The violent factions are small but are given an undue amount of attention by media and police groups. Many times they are used as an excuse to attack and intimidate peaceful protestors. Its sad. Peace in protest! | |
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