Posted on 11/13/2010 7:41:21 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
I don't know how many of you go digging around in the progressive church bulletins, but check this out: (from the above link)
What is Fair Trade?
Fair trade seeks to transform the lives of the poor in the developing world by enabling them to use their skills and resources to trade their way out of poverty. It seeks to challenge injustices in trading structures and practices that so often lead to the exploitation and marginalization of poor people.
. It is a sustainable and systemic approach that gives people independence and dignity. Its not charity, nor pity, but its a sustainable way to break cycles of poverty and dependency.
Years ago I heard Neal Boortz say something that really changed my perspective. “The poor aren’t poor because they have no money. They are poor because of bad judgement. The failure of Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ is proof of this fact. Giving money to poor people changes NOTHING.” I would go on to say that our various state’s experiments with lotteries also proves this. Almost uniformly lottery winners are poor again in months. The market decides what “fair” is. Anyting else is manipulation.
I love these folks that refer to capitalism as a “system”. It isn’t. Like gravity, it is what remains when all the “systems” are stripped away. “The Law of the Serengetti”. Every morning each lion in the plain wakes up and knows, he must be faster than the slowest gazelle or starve. Each gazelle wakes up knowing that if he is slower than the fastest lion he will be eaten. Efforts to change this will never succeed because when there is no energy left for the effort The Law is what remains.
Sounds like the Fair Traders are using the same liberal justifications the Liberal Free Trade Globalists use to push their agenda
Free Traders use the same “social and economic justice” terms when pushing their agenda. Lord knows how many times the Free Trader Globalists have pushed “it will help so and so country out of poverty”. Or “it will lead to democracy” as the supporters of Free Trade with Communist China still push
Neither Free Trader nor Fair Trader cares about the American wealth shipped out of the nation, and sent to people who do not like us.
Economic Anti-Americanism is the result of both the Free and Fair Traders
We need to have an equal market access around the world and can profit from more fair trade - it needs to be both ways, not just guilt tripping Americans into buying even more expensive imported items
Equal Trade is needed...not Free or Fair Trade. Neither work
Need to do away with the Statist organizations like the WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, EU, UN, etc....
The problem with Fair Trade is that it sounds like Communism. The problem with Free Trade is that it subsidizes Communism (Communist China). The difference between Fair and Free Trade is the difference between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
“Fair Trade” = “Social Justice” = collectivism = tyranny + poverty
Capitalism has allowed many extremely poor countries to catapult from abject poverty to great wealth. Case in point China which thirty years ago was one of the poorest countries in the world and is now planning on being the world's biggest economic engine in the near future. If China can do it, other poor countries can do it.
“In general, the phrase social < x > means the opposite of < x >.”
Hey, you’re right! Social Security means no security, social services means stand in line, social justice means extortion....
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