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Originally posted by Patroklos
That should have been permatopped.
That should have been permatopped.
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Re: Free trade, and how it is understood by Anglo-Saxons
Smith is not being betrayed because he never called for the elimination of all trade barriers.Originally posted by DAVOUT
Adam Smith, the worshiped icon of free-traders, is being betrayed again in the “open skies” agreement.Golfing since 67Comment
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Re: Re: Free trade, and how it is understood by Anglo-Saxons
Useful reminderOriginally posted by Tingkai
Smith is not being betrayed because he never called for the elimination of all trade barriers.
Statistical anomaly.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Comment
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I see you completely missed the smiley in my post.Originally posted by VJ
I hope you didn't turn angry, my original reply in this thread was more directed at Burjaci than you, you know...
I hope it provocates him to think of something new.
The replacement of pounds and square feet with football fields and 747's could have been seen by some as an indication that the post is not to be taken in a literal sense.
BTW feeling better than someone, is not racism it can cover a wide array of states and characteristics including snobbism, megalomania and nationalism.
Further more how can you be racist towards members of your own race? You can be prejudice and intolerant, xenophobic even, but not racist. That is unless you equate ethnicity and race, which are different things.
Racial differences are a result of several minor physical adaptations to the local environment, ethnical differences are mostly a result of culture.
You are off-course right that the US tolerates criticism unlike some countries but you will rarely see kind comments on poly towards Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and North Korea. That argument really doesn’t hold water unless you meant the blind anti-Americanism of certain intellectual circles.
The only thing I have against the US are double standards, lack of universal healthcare and the practice of capital punishment.I'm not buying BtS until Firaxis impliments the "contiguous cultural border negates colony tax" concept.Comment
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Re: Re: Re: Free trade, and how it is understood by Anglo-Saxons
Any time.Originally posted by DAVOUT
Useful reminder
Here's some info that might interest you:
"The W.T.O. proposal would also cut the highest United States tariff on manufactured imports to less than 8 percent, from 58 percent. For Europe, the highest tariff would fall below 7 percent, from 26 percent. Tariffs in India on imported manufactured goods would decline to about 15 percent, from an average of 19 percent, while Brazil’s would go to 9 percent, from an average of 11 percent."
It's not just airline travel.Golfing since 67Comment
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