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R. S. Refugee
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The computer wizards of Bangalore (in Karnataka) and Kerala are the products of fully funded state education systems where, unlike the USA, no child is left behind. A huge apparatus of state-owned or state-controlled industries, redistributionist tax systems, subsidies of necessities from electricity to food, tight government regulation and affirmative action programs for the lower castes are what has created these comfortable refuges for Oracle and Microsoft.
French-Fried Friedman, Nouvelle Globalizer
by Greg Palast
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0604-22.htm |
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Big_Bird
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Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:39 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Ref, I'm going to steal this for the free markets thread!    |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:53 am Post subject: |
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It's not the implicit racism of Friedman's statement which is most irksome, it's his ghastly glee that "a world of benefits they [Western Europeans] have known for 50 years is coming apart," because the French and other Europeans "are trying to preserve a 35 hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day."
He forgot to add, "and where Indian families are ready to sell their children into sexual slavery to survive." Now, THERE'S a standard to reach for.
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I have trouble finishing an article that starts off with a blunder like this one. Somehow Aryan Indians are now a different 'race' than the French. And this so Palast can rant and rave without actually giving any evidence, and all the while condemning my boy Tom of saying things he hasn't said.
It's my observation that when the Left writes for the Left and the Right for the Right, very little worth reading gets written. There was a piece in today's NY Times about the art of persuasion being lost. The writer had a point there.
I'm guessing this guy's campaigning to be the Sean Hannity of the Left. |
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mithridates
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Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| It's not the implicit racism of Friedman's statement which is most irksome, it's his ghastly glee that "a world of benefits they [Western Europeans] have known for 50 years is coming apart," because the French and other Europeans "are trying to preserve a 35 hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day." |
That's where the article loses a lot of credibility. Why bother using a cheap shot like that? |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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Wow, you and I had the same thought at the same time.  |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Yes, double Wow!  |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| PS: Proof once again that you are a brilliant guy, mith. |
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bucheon bum
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Not to pull a Joo or anything, but these articles you pull from common dreams are generally crap. Slightly better than Ann Coulter, Michael savage, etc. on the right.
What the author fails to note is the states seeing the slowest growth in India are those where the Communist Party has the most influence. What he also fails to note is how the Communist Party itself is become more liberal (I mean that in the economist sense of the word) in regards to trade. Hmmm, that should tell you something. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Thanks Ref, I'm going to steal this for the free markets thread! |
Why should my tax dollars go towards a range of benefits for you and your child, after all that is what you are calling for with your demands for redistributive taxation and the like. I'd favour a system where you look after you and yours and I am free to decide where my money goes. You lefties are nothing short of petty theives.  |
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