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From: sebb@pyuxss.UUCP (S Badian)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Joy of Starvation
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 11:13:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 11:13:01 1984
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	I got news for you - we(as in the US for all non-
US people reading this) have more than enough for ourselves
and lots of others. The amount of food your family alone
wastes is probably enough to feed a small African country!
	Personally I don't blame those third world countries
one little bit. We shit (excuse my vulgarity) all over the
poorer people in this world, our own included. We make it
sound like they're all poor because they like it or because
it's some subversive plot to take our resources and make
us feel like fools. Well, it just ain't so. We take more
out of all the countries than we ever give to them in aid.
We're laughing all the way to the bank. If you were to 
listen to some of the UN proceedings on multi-national
corporations it would make you wonder who is running these
companies. They go in and rape a country and could care
less what's left after they're done. Until the US starts
to promote some sort of control of its own companies in
these countries we will get no thanks. I say we have to
promote these controls because you can be damn sure many
of the lawmakers in these countries are being paid off
so they keep it nice and cushy for our big conglomerates.
	National policy may say one thing. But when we
allow our economic representatives to run over poor 
countries I begin to believe another. We brought in unions
and tougher environmental laws and minimum wage so our
own people don't suffer. But who the hell cares about
all those starving Asians and Africans.
				Sharon Badian