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Eisboch wrote:
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On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:49:27 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


That is really the issue - it's another attempt to redistribute income
only on an internationlist scale.
If that really is the issue, you are looking to blame the wrong people.
It isn't the environmentalists, it's the capitalists. If we are buying
all the out-sourced, pollution intensive products of the eastern
economies, who's pollution is it really? The Chinese, or ours? Part of
the "attractiveness" of out-sourcing is, in addition to the dollar a day
wages, companies don't have to put up with our pesky pollution laws.


If you really get down to it, it's not the environmentalists nor the
capitalists. It's the consumer ... looking for the lowest prices for
products and the highest return on their stock market investments.

Eisboch



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Biting their noses to spite their faces.


Yup. It's a catch 22. I suppose you could impose high tariffs on imported
products but that opens up another can of worms. Meanwhile, the Chinese
factory worker is delighting in his and his country's newfound economic
success, very happy to be working for compensation and in conditions that we
consider slavery.

Eisboch