Is there any space in this equation for the economic reality of comparative advantage?
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Free trade world wide and the eliminations of poverty.
Or me having a 12 inch dick and being 25 again.
Which one do you think the more likely?
Take away the subsidies and trade protections so many enjoy, mostly farmers, and what do you have?
More food imports coming from poor third world countries and more third world billionaires.
Gordon Brown actually thinks the solution to illiteracy in Africa is to pump into it billions of dollars. The arm salesmen were on the first plane they could find, usually their own, to visit all their new and old customers.
Sorry for being a realist.
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