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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
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 12:38:51 1985
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Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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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.


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Marc Majka  -  UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision