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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: America-bashing
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 11:10:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 11:10:15 1985
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>Todd Jones writes: 
> Americans are largely ignorant of the extent to which our
> prosperity is dependent on the oppression of non-Americans.
> We are taught to believe that hard work and ingenuity are
> the forces that have propelled us to our status as world
> leaders. While we have worked hard and are ingenious, we
> have fueled these attributes with resources from other
> countries. 

So what!!  Oil went from 6 dollars a barrel to 30 dollars a barrel.  Who the 
hell is exploiting who.  Do you suppose that South Americans have no coffee to
drink because we buy it all.  

Look around on your market's shelves, how many made in USA products do you see?
From electronic consumer items to garbage can lids are all made almost entirely
overseas by non-American corporations.  If anyone is being exploited, it is
we, the American public.  Three hundred thousand auto and steel workers have 
lost their jobs as a result of this exploitation.  Millions more are out of
work because of imports and cheap illegal immigrant labor.

Do you have any idea how many overseas jobs are provided by the American con-
sumer, at the cost of American jobs?  No I can bet you don't.  So stop this
insane rhetoric about the exploitation and oppression of the poor foreigner. 

What about Japan, they import 90% of their raw materials.  Are they oppressing
other countries?  Do you believe
as you do about the American worker that Japan is not where it is today because
of hard work and ingenuity but simply because they oppress foreigners?
ALL COUNTRIES IMPORT RAW MATERIALS!!  But here is where the difference starts.
It's knowing what to do with them AFTER you get them.  For your information,
it's been called yankee knowhow, American ingenuity, not oppression. 
 
I rest my case and find you guilty of ignorance and sentence you to purchase
molybdenite from Africa in its worthless form and "oppress" it to molybdenum.