>>Maybe we should try to bring willing countries up to a better standard of living instead of bringing ours down to theirs.<<
GATT and NAFTA were supposed to do that. Now American corporation are manufacturing in dozens of foreign nations. The only problem is that they are manufacturing items that were once manufactured in the USA. The heavy steel mills that produced so much pollution that the EPA bureaucrats could no longer breathe have been closed down and moved to China. FReepers cheered when the union jobs went the way of the mills until they learned that us taxpayers are now supporting out of work steel mill workers.
The automobile plants in Detroit have all cut their production because most of our vehicles now come from Canada or Mexico while us taxpayers are now supporting out of work automobile plant workers.
What would your plan be for those third world nations?
Actually, that was a rhetorical statement.
I just really don’t think the US should accept living in huts and eating bugs because other nations do, and might get mad if we don’t,is a good idea.
I know the amount of energy and money poured into these third world countries has been a lost cause. And has backfired in many ways.
But unless we change the current administration and the attitudes of many...we could be in the same shape.
I need to add...I don’t think eating bugs is very appealing. Oh, I know..protein, blah, blah, blah.