Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.CDN Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!majka From: majka@ubc-vision.CDN (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: The all-too-mighty dollar Message-ID: <988@ubc-vision.CDN> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 12:38:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.988 Posted: Tue Jul 2 12:38:51 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 15:44:05 EDT Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 17 So the Americans are crying the blues because natural resources (forest products) from BC are too cheap! Now I've heard everything. Where is all that "free enterprise" mumbo-jumbo now? Why doesn't some free enterpriser (read capitalist) in the USA just buy up all that cheap lumber and stockpile it and make a fortune? Isn't that the way it is supposed to work? Seems that free enterprise works just fine at home, as long as you have protectionist trade policies. Even better if none of you trading partners (Canada, Japan, European Common Market ...) want free trade. The Americans want their apple pie and to eat it too. Their economic rhetoric becomes hypocrisy when they find it to their own advantage. Small wonder that the USA has earned the reputation of being an economic bully. --- Marc Majka - UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision