Economy

jwirr

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6. It is outright scary that this is being taught in a college course. I have always wanted the economy

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 07:43 PM

Dec 2011

to work on making each country more or less self supplying when it comes to the goods they need. This was happening after the Depression in this country. Yes, I no that no country can be totally self sufficient so there would still be trade between countries. But what is happening right now is dangerous.

I do not know how this would work or if it is even possible but I wish it were.

I wonder if anyone knows if there was more starvation in places like Africa back in the 50s than there is now? Have taking our businesses over there helped or hurt?

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companies were going bankrupt or had to move out of country. [View all] seabeyond Dec 2011 OP

I wish we could sue teachers for malpractice. Warpy Dec 2011 #1

this is the part i told her. but i do remember a time a decade ago, companies seemed to seabeyond Dec 2011 #2

In most cases, it was bullshit. In a few cases Warpy Dec 2011 #4

Another point to be made is that we were propagandized to believe shipping our jobs overseas.... Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #7

Child labor is WHY people are hungry. mbperrin Dec 2011 #3

you say it so much better than I Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #8

Gawrsh, that's a BIG compliment coming from Tansy_Gold! mbperrin Dec 2011 #9

Tansy Gold is woefully unschooled and operates by the seat of her pants and her gut instinct Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #10

Any John Ruskin or E. F. Schumacher? mbperrin Dec 2011 #11

Ruskin yes, a lot of JS Mill Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #12

Seabeyond, it doesn’t sound as though your niece will gain much knowledge in that course. ms.smiler Dec 2011 #5

It is outright scary that this is being taught in a college course. I have always wanted the economy jwirr Dec 2011 #6