God Bless the Corporations

So far you have provided no facts, stats, or expert opinion to back up anything you say, in fact you ignore most of the logical errors which have been pointed out in your posts. Anyone can just wave their hand in their air and say "prove it" and then wave their hands in the air again and reject anything put forward.


Also there is almost no better argument for economic ignorance than believing an exchange rate of 25 crowns to the dollar means anything. There are 110 yen to the dollar, does that mean the US is massively wealthy compared to Japan?

Why don't we turn the argument around here - how about if you prove to us that banning trade between the fifty states wouldn't harm the economy. Use facts, stats, and expert opinion.

 

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Where do you get all this banning trade crap? Don't put words in my mouth. Go back and read.

Let's turn it around? No, just prove your selfishness is good for the world.

 

And this has something to do with the exchange rate because.......?

In any case the Prague Hotel is nothing, the Four Seasons is a top hotel in Prague. Room rates from 300 to 1000 euros, so add 22% for dollars. And enjoy the view.

 

Hey whaddya know, a guy who has money to burn, approves of globalization.

 

more bullshit. But I also sense sarcasm in the original post...We do not prosper under corporations..they prosper from us buing into their marketting propagandas. They have all the money and we are the pawns.

 

God Damn the Corporations!

 

nah god bless....the market can solve the world's problems.....just have to keep it a little in check......

 

how do you keep them in check??

 

da gubmint

 

Well laws are a good way to start....

 

uh...the very notion of keeping corporations "in check" is a fundamental contradiction to the "free market" ideology. Checks and balances are at the core of a regulated market system. "Free market" pundits, and ignorant folks who defend corporate globalization talk about "keeping everything in check", but the foundation of neo-liberal economic policy is premised on the practice of "de-regulation"---NO checks and/or balances...which would be considered "trade barriers".

Keeping corporations in check is impossible because the corporations resist any and all attempts to curtail its imperialist practices and policies.

A massive revolt or boycott is the ONLY solution that many in the movement can see.

To understand it all more clearly, read Naomi Klein's "No Logo".

 

RevoMystic~ My thoughts exactly!

 

Then why didn't you express them before? RevoMystic to whom was your post directed? Didn't quite catch that one.

 

He said it better then I could.

 

It wasn't directed at anyone in particular, but for any who would choose to read it.

 

Are you kidding me? Do you think if corporations were eliminated we would prosper? You are out of your mind. Pointbreak has brilliantly defended the cause of globalization. Third world countries NEED to get out of poverty, and they aren't going to do it by regulations, tarrifs, and taxes on their products and products coming into their country. It's socialist polocies that people like you advocate that keep people poor, and I know, my family and I come from a former Soviet occupied nation.

 

Jozak, I feel for you man, you are completely and utterly misled.

 

Misled? You don't know jack. I come from a former Soviet bloc country. I know first hand what devoloping nations have to do in order to escape below par GDP's. Look at Poland and the Czech republic, they are the 2 most prosperous nations in Eastern Europe, and it's a result of open trade polocies, low tarrifs, investment by corporations AND other companies that have made them both to continue to grow. Becasue of those factors, small businesses are able to develop and take root. Please show me nations where protectionsim, high tarrifs, and the opposite of everything I just said, that allowed those nations to become wealthy.

 

Maye I'm dense, but a free market and a regulated market would appear to be two different things, no? A free marker is one with few or no checks/regulations, hence the term "free."

Very confusing. You're saying that no checks and balances would be considered trade barriers? How so?

You can say "imperialist practices and policies" and make corporations sound evil all you want, but who would supply jobs to third world countries if there were no corporations? Are you suggesting the locals go back to subsistence farming and gathering?

 

Bacchus, Jozak, and other isolationists/socialists/corporation-haters:

Please tell me if you disagree with any of my premises, or my logic for reaching the following conclusions:

• All other things being equal, no person voluntarily trades goods/services/money for something he would consider to be less valuable.
• Given two similar products of equal quality, people are more likely to buy the cheaper one.
• Given two similar products of equal price, people are more likely to buy the higher-quality one.
• Given #1, when a person purchases goods or services from another person, the buyer benefits because he considers those services to be more valuable or equally valuable as the money in his pocket.
• Given #1, when a person sells goods or services to another person, the seller benefits because he considers the money to be more valuable or equally valuable as the goods or services he provides.
• Given #4 and #5, there exists a price at which both buyers and sellers generally agree is fair, and beneficial to both.
• Competition among businesses (SUPPLY of a good/service) generally lowers the price, because more sellers are competing for the same customers.
• Competition among buyers (DEMAND of a good/service) generally raises the price, because more willing buyers are competing for the same goods and services.
• Given #4 and #7, if you DENY buyers the right to purchase goods or services from certain businesses, groups of businesses, or countries, (example: denying American consumers the right to purchase goods from Vietnamese sweatshop businesses) there will be LESS competition among businesses.
• Given #7 and #9, if there is LESS competition among businesses, prices will increase, thereby hurting the buyer because he has less purchasing power.
• Given #5 and #8, if you DENY companies the right to sell goods or services to certain customers, groups of customers, or countries, (example: denying Vietnamese sweatshop businesses to sell to American consumers) there will be LESS competition among buyers.
• Given #8 and #11, if there is LESS competition among buyers, prices will decrease, thereby hurting the seller because his income is less.
• Given #10 and #12, denying people the right to free trade harms BOTH the buyer and the seller.
• Given #13, isolationism or “self-sufficiency” is a ridiculously stupid policy.