Outsourcing also enable you to have that (relatively) cheap computer you're typing that comment on.
Outsourcing also enables many small business owners that otherwise wouldn't have the capital to set up their own factories to develop and sell their own products.
And outsourcing also raises wages abroad which helps create a new class of consumers that American companies can sell to if that's what you're worried about.
America still has a far lower unemployment rate then many other first world countries (France, Germany, UK). You have very little to worry about.
But it is perhaps the lesser of two evils, when compared to governments that would make their people poorer, stupider, and more beholden to a totalitarian Soviet Union.
And how did our actions in that time period do anything to make them richer and more educated? When we knowingly propped up regimes that benefited from the people being to uneducated to rebel, and to poor to form a politically active middle class?
No it wasn't the better of two evils, it was the same evil. We should have had faith in our ideology, democracy and capitalism do work, we should have given it the chance.
Except the labour party explicitly wanted state ownership, remember clause 4? "common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange" sounds pretty Communist to me.
Yeah we have moved away from that quite significantly though, but at the time it was still a relevant part of the Labour party ideology.
Electing a socialist president was the first step to falling under communist influence? You mean how the UK, France, Norway, Sweden etc. all elected socialist governments at some point during the Cold War? Were they all destined to fall under Soviet influence?
And you're right the blame for Iranian autocracy doesn't solely fall to UK/US foreign policy however when you consider that they were responsible for destabilising an emerging and [b]fully functioning[/b] democracy you have to raise some objections - especially as there were no other justifications apart from oil interests, its a pretty disgusting episode in both of our nations history.
Oh and the people of Iran never became 'religious nutjobs' they overturned a blatantly unjust government (partially our fault remember) with the only alternative at the time that wouldn't splinter the country. Iran is a huge multi-ethnic country and Islam is one of the few common strands that ties all those disparate groups together.
And you realise your final paragraph is basically a restatement of 'the domino effect' which is pretty much bullshit, and the Soviet Union was never going to control the whole world. And there's no [i]perhaps[/i] about it. It is immoral to install dictators and subject people to totalitarian rule. And it was pretty much a ineffective wherever we tried it as it lead to huge resentment from the populations of those countries when they eventually freed themselves.
Which is why South America has such close relations with the UA nowadays. If we use the exact same tactics as those we label our enemies, what makes us any better then them?
I'd be much more impressed with EU anti-trust efforts if they weren't pretty much aimed at non-EU companies. They're mostly a trade barrier rather than a legitimate regulatory body. You serious? Have ever thought that maybe you only hear about the American ones because you're er, American? Neither Microsoft or Apple are in the top ten fines from the European commission- I don't even think any of them are American. And IT isn't even in the top ten sectors for fines. How the hell did you think you knew enough to claim the EU regulators were nothing but trade barriers?
3.7 litres in a gallon right?
Well we're at about £1 a litre here right now, so it'd be £3.7 per a gallon which at current exchange rates is $7.5.
How you gonna get around when petrol costs that much? (Note I do realise that much of that is tax, which would probably would never be allowed in the US)
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Outsourcing also enable you to have that (relatively) cheap computer you're typing that comment on. Outsourcing also enables many small business owners that otherwise wouldn't have the capital to set up their own factories to develop and sell their own products. And outsourcing also raises wages abroad which helps create a new class of consumers that American companies can sell to if that's what you're worried about. America still has a far lower unemployment rate then many other first world countries (France, Germany, UK). You have very little to worry about.
But it is perhaps the lesser of two evils, when compared to governments that would make their people poorer, stupider, and more beholden to a totalitarian Soviet Union.
And how did our actions in that time period do anything to make them richer and more educated? When we knowingly propped up regimes that benefited from the people being to uneducated to rebel, and to poor to form a politically active middle class? No it wasn't the better of two evils, it was the same evil. We should have had faith in our ideology, democracy and capitalism do work, we should have given it the chance.Except the labour party explicitly wanted state ownership, remember clause 4? "common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange" sounds pretty Communist to me. Yeah we have moved away from that quite significantly though, but at the time it was still a relevant part of the Labour party ideology.
Did you ever leave the 1980's?
Electing a socialist president was the first step to falling under communist influence? You mean how the UK, France, Norway, Sweden etc. all elected socialist governments at some point during the Cold War? Were they all destined to fall under Soviet influence?
And you're right the blame for Iranian autocracy doesn't solely fall to UK/US foreign policy however when you consider that they were responsible for destabilising an emerging and [b]fully functioning[/b] democracy you have to raise some objections - especially as there were no other justifications apart from oil interests, its a pretty disgusting episode in both of our nations history.
Oh and the people of Iran never became 'religious nutjobs' they overturned a blatantly unjust government (partially our fault remember) with the only alternative at the time that wouldn't splinter the country. Iran is a huge multi-ethnic country and Islam is one of the few common strands that ties all those disparate groups together.
And you realise your final paragraph is basically a restatement of 'the domino effect' which is pretty much bullshit, and the Soviet Union was never going to control the whole world. And there's no [i]perhaps[/i] about it. It is immoral to install dictators and subject people to totalitarian rule. And it was pretty much a ineffective wherever we tried it as it lead to huge resentment from the populations of those countries when they eventually freed themselves.
Which is why South America has such close relations with the UA nowadays. If we use the exact same tactics as those we label our enemies, what makes us any better then them?
http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSL215845620070221
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3.7 litres in a gallon right? Well we're at about £1 a litre here right now, so it'd be £3.7 per a gallon which at current exchange rates is $7.5. How you gonna get around when petrol costs that much? (Note I do realise that much of that is tax, which would probably would never be allowed in the US)