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Originally posted by Spanky
Really, Everyone on this board would agree that the Chicago boys and Milton Friedman produced a miracle in Chile. I doubt that.
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Like I said -- if you disagree with my statement that this is not the argument people are making, please show me the post where anyone made this argument.
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Because that would lead to the fact that the answer for all these third world countrys would be to slash their tarrifs, not protect their domestic industry, not subsidies their farmers, let US corporations come in and "exploit" the hell out of them by paying their workers usuerous wages, privatise their industry etc. In other words do everything the IMF and World Bank tells them to do, and that they should all embrace the WTO. That is an admission that no liberal can swallow.
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Many of these things would be good. However, requiring third world countries to slash their tariffs while the US and Europe continue to massively subsidize agriculture, thus preventing the third world countries from competing economically in the one area where they can compete... well, that doesn't seem very "free-market" to me.
Ooooh, I know -- if we throw in some torture, it'll be free market!
