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Date Posted: 17:56:41 03/04/02 Mon
Author: Normal
Author Host/IP: modem16-44.mo-net.com / 12.110.236.57
Subject: Nader

Donk, you asked what it was that I disagreed with Nader about. To be honest I couldn't remember. So I was looking over the site I linked below and saw this:

"The global corporatists preach a model of economic growth that rests on the flows of trade and finance between nations dominated by the giant multinationals -- drugs, tobacco, oil, banking, and other services. The global corporate model is premised on the concentration of power over markets, governments, mass media, patent monopolies over critical drugs and seeds, the workplace and corporate culture. All these and other power concentrates, homogenize the globe and undermine democratic processes and their benefits.
Far better for countries to focus on building domestic markets through land reform, microcredit for small businesses, use of local materials for housing and renewable energy solar-style. For developing countries, it is far better for bottom-up capital formation to encourage activities that are more job intensive -- generating purchasing power -- than adopting highly capitalized and chemical plantation type agribusiness with destructive technologies.

Source: �In the Public Interest� newspaper column Dec 7, 1999

This sounds a little too idealistic to be realistic. Saying he opposes globalization doesn't seem to be a proper heading either. Should be Opposes corporate globalization, I think.

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Replies:

Re: Nader -- Grumpy�, 19:03:11 03/04/02 Mon
- Fear and loathing -- Southern Gent, 20:13:05 03/04/02 Mon
- Population growth -- Normal, 22:23:15 03/04/02 Mon
Thank you very much. By jove, you've got it! -- Donk-the-idiot, 20:30:39 03/04/02 Mon
- Better direction -- Normal, 22:33:56 03/04/02 Mon