G-8 Agrees To Disagree, Courtesy US

Wealth can not be created, only taken. Real costs can not be cut, only transferred on other sectors, the future, or the environment. Pollution is the transferred costs from the past, or of our present "wealth creating" activities, onto our descendants. The more "wealthy" we get the more pollution and global warming we, or our descendants will have.

These are the real costs of the fraudulent definitions of economic efficiency, the GDP, Growth and Productivity figures used by miseducated and phoney neoclassical economists. Yet, our political "leaders" can not give them the boot, because it would hurt the feelings of their corporate sponsors and their hopes for future strings of directorships. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

Some suggest the rejection was due to changing U.S. perceptions of sovereignty and self-reliance.

The United States dictates the rules of any agreement it signs. When things go in their favour the rules are fine. When US producers start to feel as though they are losing something, whether real or not, then the agreement must be renegotiated.

The real issue is that the US has too great of a hand in framing international trade rules, which it uses to ensure that its own producers are somehow insulated from the tough realities that it recommends for others. It is in the end, a commitment to getting other countries to give American producers access to their markets and the US reciprocates when it is convenient. This is due to a lack of checks and balances that other countries in the world have to entice them to keep an even keel on their trade agreements.

The United States is looking for a way, potentially, to trump the World Nations in technology and innovation as well as a possibly to reap a tidy profit at rest of our expense without loosing World Superiority.


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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

I`d like to see the G8 become the G7 and kick the USA out of the club until it gets its act together.

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Dave Ruston