On Jun 1, 4:57�am, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 5/30/2010 12:29 PM, harry wrote:





On May 30, 1:27 pm, �wrote:
Peter wrote:
On 5/29/2010 2:34 PM, Douglas Johnson wrote:
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The problem is the Chinese slave workforce. And the fact they hold
don't allow their currency to float. These sort of things never
went on in Smith's day.

Wrong at least twice. The workforce in China is not slave. In many
respects, it is more free than workforces in the US and UK. The
Chinese may take any job they can get hired for, at any wage, and
with any benefits they can negotiate. True, in many cases, those
wages are far less than the US or UK. But, in many cases, it beats
the hell out of working in a rice paddy. And slavery certainly existed in
Adam Smith's day, both in the US
and the UK. -- Doug

I thought that in the U.S. and U.K., anyone can take any job they can
get hired for, at any wage and benefits that they can negotiate.

Uh, no, not by a long-shot.

First, you have minimum-wage laws and all sorts of nanny-state workplace
rules. Then there are unions. Next is government licensing and permitting
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I see you are one of those greedy Americans thaty wants everything.
Even steal the food out of your nieghbour's children's mouth.

This is the black side of America. Greed, �aquisitivity, damn your
neighbour attitude.

Harry, we greedy Americans give more to help our fellow man than any
other country. If there is a disaster somewhere, Americans are going
to send help and even if it's a country that doesn't like America,
we're going to offer help. Americans are every sort of person you can
think of, some are very bad but most are not the greedy *******s you
seem to think we are and it's quite tiresome to hear it over and over.
It's like hearing people say that all white folks in The South are
racist and descendants of slave owners, it's preposterous and very
insulting. If we have a fault, it's that we don't tell the rest of the
world to **** off. Do you think for a second that Americans would
hesitate to come to the aid of your country if you were attacked or
beset by some natural disaster? What do you think we greedy *******s
would do? I'd like to know?

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I would be the last to deny this. On my relatively short visit to the
USA everyone was very kind an generous to me without exception. This
has been true virtually everywhere I have been. And we a re old
allies, we did come to help you in Iraq.
There is a problem in the UK at the moment because of emerging facts
about how and why we got into this war. Esp. emerging info about the
non-existant WMD and how the intlelligence was manipulated. Bush is
thoroughly hated over here and republicans who have destroyed our
economy as well as yours. Obama is a great relief as he seems to be
less scheming than W. We'll see.
What I find to be amazing is the circles of ignorance in America.
There seems to be goups of people that emerge with opinions without
any information. They "know" it to be true because they have dicussed
it among like minded people. Because no information comes in from the
outside, the opinion becomes reinforced to the extent they don't want
to hear anything different.
When their spurious views are exposed they become extremely abusive.
Now I have handed out abuse too but only when abused first.

The problem is that few Americans travel and when they do it's in
little frightened groups, afraid to interact with local people. Which
makes them look ridiculous or unfriendly to local people. They have
the view that nothing important happens outside America, (except in
the country of their origin).

Also in Europe, you can have a discussion with anyone and hold
different views without these hysterical outbursts we see from time to
time on these threads. A lot of my friends hold very different views
(esp. political) to me and we often have arguments but remain
friends.
It's called open mindedness. Hardly ever to be found in America. We
have wit and banter, again unknown in America.