The day some of these assholes realize that a shoe that fits one person may not fit another perhaps that clean slate will open their collective minds to novel ideas. You cannot open one door to free trade (inward, into S.America) while closing the door to their output. In my book, that isn’t free trade, it is arrogance and big brother upper-handedness.
Those state run agencies that South America, collectively, gave away to multinationals backed-up by loan sharks like the IMF, should have never left state control. They were, yes, perhaps inefficient in many ways but they were a source of jobs for the people and the money earned was spent within those states thus lubricating the economy. It wasn’t perfect, never was, but it worked. Now the situation, in many places, is dire.
Herald.com | 11/03/2005 | Latin summit likely to be tough on Bush
Many in Latin America are suspicious of free-market reforms espoused by Bush. In the 1990s, governments lowered trade barriers and privatized state firms, with little to show for their efforts. Some economists and U.S. officials argue those reforms were patchily implemented.
Patchily implemented
The day some of these assholes realize that a shoe that fits one person may not fit another perhaps that clean slate will open their collective minds to novel ideas. You cannot open one door to free trade (inward, into S.America) while closing the door to their output. In my book, that isn’t free trade, it is arrogance and big brother upper-handedness.
Those state run agencies that South America, collectively, gave away to multinationals backed-up by loan sharks like the IMF, should have never left state control. They were, yes, perhaps inefficient in many ways but they were a source of jobs for the people and the money earned was spent within those states thus lubricating the economy. It wasn’t perfect, never was, but it worked. Now the situation, in many places, is dire.
Herald.com | 11/03/2005 | Latin summit likely to be tough on Bush