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Fwd: A Kelsonian Response to COG
To the COG network,
This was mis-addressed last night. Sorry. I hope it will be useful in
addressing the globalization issue from an ownership position at all levels
of concern. Norm Kurland, The Center for Economic and Social Justice.
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Dear Dan,
I totally agree that there should be a direct linkage between free and open
global trade and an insistence on well-thoughtout and positive measures that
promote economic justice and empowerment for U.S. as well as foreign workers
through broad-based ownership policies and laws. While I have difficulty
supporting existing WTO and US trade policies because of their "fatal
omission" (i.e. a lack of sensitivity to the growing wealth and economic
power gap between the Bill Gates of the world and ordinary workers
everywhere), I don't think COG should join Pat Buchanan and other modern
mercantalists to support the erection of barriers to free and open trade.
That leads to trade wars, and, as history shows, eventually real wars. . .and
workers and consumers everywhere pay the price for the economic
short-sightedness of our political leaders. I also think Ashford and
Shakespeare's use of the term "unfree market" is what COG should adopt in
challenging the WTO; I probably would embellish the phase by calling the
present system "the unfree and unjust market system." All the best, Norm
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