Dave Smith > wrote:

>Oh come on Nancy2. You must have your head in the sand. American companies have
>bought up companies and property around the world. They and the government have
>supported corrupt and oppressive regimes in order to protect their
>interests. They
>have interfered in elections and had a hand in coups and even supported
>tyrants like
>Saddam Hussein. A lot of the goods now coming from third world countries are
>manufactured by American or other foreign owned companies who moved
>their operations
>there to take advantage of lower wages and lax employment and
>environmental laws.
>Saudis do own a lot of American business and American debt. You can thank your
>government for helping to keep the House of Saud in power.

You're right. It's all dirty. The only fully ethical approach
is to become an anarchist localvore dropout who does not
participate in the economy.

Since most people don't want to do this, the next best
thing is to limit your consumption of evil-associated
items like energy products and slave-labor manufactured goods.

What doesn't add up is to be a mindless, prolific consumer and
THEN complain about all the capitalist malfeasance around
the world. And/or to assert that your own government is somehow
less guilty of bad behavior than anyone else's.

Steve