Re: [RT] THE UK SPECTATOR: How America went for broke

[BobsKC <bobskc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damn Ralph .. why don't you just come on and say what you mean?!   :)))

Bob

At 11:00 AM 10/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I read the article in the UK Spectator and I'm really annoyed. It gives 
>the impression that everyone else in the world in holier than thou and has 
>no responsibilities in this WORLD economic implosion -- it's only American 
>greed. The sublime message was that America alone is the demon because it 
>worshiped the stock market. Well, how about you SLAWEKP, aren't you 
>following the stock markets? And how about all the other internationals 
>that are part of this list? Don't you guys and gal also have a stake in 
>it? I'm really getting sick and tired of people attempting to dump on my 
>country. Ask yourself, how did the American economy suck up vast resources 
>from the rest of the world to feed our capital markets? It was plain greed 
>by everyone else willing to contribute for greed, and we all share in this 
>as human beings, even you SLAWEKP. As for this recession, it's world-wide 
>and not just here. As for selling off much of our industries, the Japanese 
>bought a lot before their collapse in the '80s and then we bought most of 
>it back at fire sale prices, and maybe the same will happen again. As for 
>China having an asian market to buffer its economy, bunk! Most of their 
>trade is with the US. If we stop buying the junk they produce by slave 
>labor, you'll see what over capacity really is. China will have the same 
>over capacity as all that unlit fiber the article talked about. Also, the 
>article subtly tends to brag about the other regional economies, the EU 
>not mentioned, but implied. Well, between North and South America, we have 
>a pretty damned good infrastructure, as well. America has been the world's 
>energizer battery and all that prevails, lately, is a gleam in some eyes 
>that we appear to be stumbling and in the worst case there's outright 
>jealousy and hostility, as we've seen with the WTC attack. The more I read 
>dribble like that in the UK Spectator, the more I become an American that 
>would be very happy to return to isolationism -- screw the rest of the 
>world. As all humans are greedy, they are also hypocrites. I'm fully 
>coming to understand Caesar's remark: "et tu Brutus!"
>
>Ralph
>
>SLAWEKP@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>here is view from abroad on USA
>>
>>  <A
>>HREF="<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=>http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2001-09-29&id=1133";>The 
>>Spectator.co.uk</A>
>>
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