"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
...
> 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

And this was a beer conversation.

The world has been corrupt since someone decided to elect a leader.

Lead us into war, death, famine, plague.

But I'm just a Moonie, what do I know?


TFM®