Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpg!tan From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: The role of America in world hunger & red spread Message-ID: <1068@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 13:29:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1068 Posted: Mon Aug 12 13:29:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 21:26:54 EDT References: <295@SCIRTP.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 13 Xref: linus net.flame:10640 net.politics:9753 > [Todd Jones] > Au contraire, I stated the primary reason for poverty is the > resource drain from these countries to America and Europe. ----------------------------------- The above statement is WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! Boy, we sure have impoverished Saudi Arabia and Kuwait by draining their resources. Even if we exempt oil producing countries, the least poor third world countries tend to be those with the most per capita exports to the developed world. The very poorest countries have little to export. I suppose if Bangla Desh and Upper Volta stopped their already meager exports to the West they would blossom overnight. -- Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan