Peter and other Pounders,
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>From: Peter Bi <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound's politics
>Date: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 11:41 PM
>
>> Charles (Wal*Mart shopper who loves all the bargains from China)
>
> I would have believed that "globalization" be a fair play, if low-paid
> workers, not merely low-priced goods, could move here and there globally as
> the goods.
>
> Hongguang Bi
Yeah, too bad we all couldn't live like the Hobbitses, but for the argument
go to http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1429
Besides the whole country of the USA for over 250 years has been populated
by a constant stream of low-paid workers and how long do you think the
Chinese workers will remain that way?
Charles
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "charles moyer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Pound's politics
>
>
>> "Cutting axe-handle
>> Cutting an axe-handle,
>> The model is not far off." -THE BOOK OF POEMS
>>
>> "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men." - Tom
> Paine,
>> THE AMERICAN CRISIS
>>
>> Need a dissertation on Chung Yung?
>>
>> Charles (Wal*Mart shopper who loves all the bargains from China)
>>
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>> >From: Peter Bi <[log in to unmask]>
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: Re: Pound's politics
>> >Date: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 2:18 PM
>> >
>>
>> > Confucius.
>> >
>> > And charles moyer wrote:
>> >> Does the right direction ever change? Now we have 3 cents between us.
>> >
>> > It is changing, and now even China may head at a different direction.
> Who
>> > knows. But at least, the ideology worked well for a quite long time in
>> > ancient China.
>> >
>> > The point is that while people were testing or arguing what would be a
>> > better solution to the problems, Pound (might believe he) found a
> convinced
>> > solution.
>> >
>> > Note that in history, China never had the "money" problem or usury, yet
> the
>> > economics was the surprisingly strong. For Pound, Confucian ideology
> gets
>> > rid of usury at the first place.
>> >
>> > Let me know.
>> >
>> > Hongguang Bi
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:23 AM
>> > Subject: Re: Pound's politics
>> >
>> >
>> >> which right iz you talkin' bout?
>> >>
>> >> jb..
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> They hang the man and flog the woman
>> >> That steal the goose from off the common,
>> >> But let the greater villain loose
>> >> That steals the common from the goose.
>> >>
>> >> ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of
> desire --
>> > in
>> >> the
>> >> sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful
>> >> language
>> >> of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or
>> >> hypocritical,
>> >> whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The
>> > dominating
>> >> impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a
>> > prescribed
>> >> good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is
>> > poured
>> >>
>> >> forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the
>> > slaughter
>> >> house.
>> >> One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without
> first
>> >> giving
>> >> free reign to this hubbub of voices...."
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