In the footsteps of his master: One of Slate's
Bushisms14 June 2001 - "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." - Gothenburg, Sweden
Dick Morris in a New York Post
essay, responding to a recent NYTime's Op-Ed by Kristof on US charity
07 January 2005 - By opening our markets to Third World trade more than any other nation, we create far, far more wealth in poor countries than all the governmental foreign aid in the world put together. [...] Eventually, we plan to open our markets to imports from all of South America. We even passed a special exemption from our import quotas for textiles from Africa to foster jobs in that beleaguered nation.
In the event that the editors at the New York Post correct this passage, we've captured a screenshot of the sentence.
posted by Quiddity at 1/07/2005 07:15:00 AM
There are so many things wrong with the Morris comment. Our market has been open to Mexico for a long time and that country still suffers from widespread poverty. Argentina's economy is recovering only because it has stopped following IMF recommendations. Opening up our market in turn shifts our jobs overseas. Foreign aid is intended to help the poor now, not after an economy has grown. Even with a developed and rich economy we have abject poverty here, thus the "market," by itself, is not the solution to poverty.
Nation, continent ; weapons of mass destruction, no weapons of mass destruction; installing democracy, installing anarchy -- what't the difference.
