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Victims of American agricultural subsidies include Canada and Australia. America so drove down wheat prices as to make farmers in those countries suffer. But then it is a global economy, no matter what terrorists and demonstrators at world economic councils 'feel' (usually without even basic knowledge of economics).
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They are not arguing that it is NOT a global economy, they are protesting against the unfairness of it *sighs*
I was at some of those protests, it has much more to do with things like American tariffs that protect the inefficient industries you are always complaining about from being bitchslapped by economic realities.
I mean the reasons are obvious, any government knows that it lives or dies on its economic management before anything else and the concept of half-killing industries (that often have powerful political lobbies, like the Japanese rice industry - a joke financially)in the process of making them economically viable is political suicide.
Australia has a policy of zero tariffs - the only industry we protect to the best of my knowledge is cars. If you take a look at our trade white paper (
www.dfat.gov.au/ini/wp.html) (you know you do far too much international studies when you memorise things like that) it revolves around the concept of true free trade, not the selective bullshit America keeps pouting while using economic muscle to bully everyone into unfair agreements.
It’s good to see Europe is making some token efforts toward opening its markets to free trade wit the third world in fruits and vegetables, it’s a good start.
Want one reason so many people hate America? Its the unfairness of wealth, if these people weren’t in such desperate poverty they wouldn't become the 'terrorists' tw seems to be talking about. Why are they in such desperate poverty? Because half the things they can produce are made unviable by tariffs in first world countries to protect commercially unviable businesses
Grrrr why the HELL does word (set to ENGLISH english, keep trying to spell words with a Z.