The Chinese government supports rice, wheat and corn production in China with $100 billion. The US government objects because it hurts exports of these foods to China from US farmers which have grown from $2 billion to $15 billion in the last 15 years. The general relation of China and the US over the past 40 years has been the admission of cheaper Chinese industrial products into the US at the expense of American jobs and the opening of China’s rapidly growing economy to investment by big American and foreign corporations. But in the case of farm products, the Obama administration does not think it fair to sacrifice American farm jobs producing products more cheaply than in China. President Obama is meanwhile lobbying Congress to pass the TPP trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries. Essentially this is the same deal as the ongoing deal between the US and China. Tariffs will be lowered so that products can come in easily to the US from 11 countries and, at the expense of some American jobs, American corporations and other corporations will have much freer access to investment opportunities in 11 countries already well developed.
I am in favor of both deals because I don’t see any good coming to the world of the future by the actions of governments trying to manipulate economies. The future success and prosperity of the world should be as little as possible in the hands of governments. States were once necessary because they raised armies to protect their citizens from invasion. Then, because they had sovereign power, they used it to support their state industries against foreign industries. Every state not in a union of states now uses its power either against rapid economic expansion or it frustrates business enterprises with corruption and unreasonably high taxes. Corporations are the only means to produce real social good for humanity in the future. Governments of sovereign states are already showing all over the world that their ineffectiveness has become humanity’s bane. I am glad that American and other foreign corporations have seized opportunities for investment in China and that they will do the same in Pacific Rim countries when TPP is approved by 12 states. Let all the states in the world do the business of collecting taxes only for the immediate good of everyone of their citizens. And let corporations enrich themselves and us by creating goods that we all need and that only they can produce effectively.
Daniel McNeill
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
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and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
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