so, today i tasted tear gas for the first time in my life.
and i wasnt even protesting, i was going home to have lunch.
i woke up, went to buy bread in the early empty morning and saw a few cops with the riot outfit on and an armored carrier.. i knew today the commies meant business.
when i dropped back at 3 for lunch, as i was walking to the door, i saw the commies yelling against the free trade treaty and so on like 150-200 yards away from my house, and then some cop threw tear gas for the kicks and i felt funny on the nose, it made me cry in the 10 seconds it took me to realize i was breathing tear gas and run to my car to get away. man, that **** hauls ass. even at, at least, 2 blocks away.
i dont know why would protesters protest against an economical/political decision in front of the defense ministery (like they had something to do ) but what would i know....
thing is, while the commies oppose a "free trade" on ideological grounds, i thought they had one good point, even though i support a free treade treaty with the states.
That is the subsidies farmers get in the US, and the crop dumping.
on one hand you have a few relatively well off farmers in the US receiving money from the government to keep pumping corn and wheat at super low prices... (accounts for less than 1% of the gdp, and less than 0.7% of the workforce in farming/forestry/fishing combined)
on the other hand, you have millions of subsistance farmers in south america and asia, who have 1 acre of land and pretty much live of what they get for the crops.
the super cheap crops of the 1st sweep out of competition the 2nd farmers.
i really dont understand what is the point, or what is there to gain. from any point of view, if you are a conservative, its using tax money for a few inefficient farmers, if you are a pinko liberal, you are hurting the poorest of the poor...
on ideological grounds, it is clearly a textbook example of anti-free market government intervention.
is it strategical? does the us wants to have a warrantied supply of food if there is a blockade, even after the collapse of the soviets?
are they evil and want to starve to death millions of people? the lobbies are to powerful?
what are your thoughts on that??
and i wasnt even protesting, i was going home to have lunch.
i woke up, went to buy bread in the early empty morning and saw a few cops with the riot outfit on and an armored carrier.. i knew today the commies meant business.
when i dropped back at 3 for lunch, as i was walking to the door, i saw the commies yelling against the free trade treaty and so on like 150-200 yards away from my house, and then some cop threw tear gas for the kicks and i felt funny on the nose, it made me cry in the 10 seconds it took me to realize i was breathing tear gas and run to my car to get away. man, that **** hauls ass. even at, at least, 2 blocks away.
i dont know why would protesters protest against an economical/political decision in front of the defense ministery (like they had something to do ) but what would i know....
thing is, while the commies oppose a "free trade" on ideological grounds, i thought they had one good point, even though i support a free treade treaty with the states.
That is the subsidies farmers get in the US, and the crop dumping.
on one hand you have a few relatively well off farmers in the US receiving money from the government to keep pumping corn and wheat at super low prices... (accounts for less than 1% of the gdp, and less than 0.7% of the workforce in farming/forestry/fishing combined)
on the other hand, you have millions of subsistance farmers in south america and asia, who have 1 acre of land and pretty much live of what they get for the crops.
the super cheap crops of the 1st sweep out of competition the 2nd farmers.
i really dont understand what is the point, or what is there to gain. from any point of view, if you are a conservative, its using tax money for a few inefficient farmers, if you are a pinko liberal, you are hurting the poorest of the poor...
on ideological grounds, it is clearly a textbook example of anti-free market government intervention.
is it strategical? does the us wants to have a warrantied supply of food if there is a blockade, even after the collapse of the soviets?
are they evil and want to starve to death millions of people? the lobbies are to powerful?
what are your thoughts on that??
