Re: [OT] I hate being American
From: Dirk Bruere at Neopax (dirk_at_neopax.com)
Date: 01/07/05
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:38:17 +0000
John Woodgate wrote:
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Franz Heymann <notfranz.heymann@bt
> openworld.com> wrote (in <crm7cq$4fm$1@hercules.btinternet.com>) about
> '[OT] I hate being American', on Fri, 7 Jan 2005:
>
>
>>Not at all. The British government indeed had a lengthy period during
>>which its welfare was fed essentially by imperial greed.
>
>
> I think that 'imperial' a little inaccurate. The real greed period was
> largely ended when the government took over India from the East India
> Company. But much of the unethical practice of the EIC was learned from
> the people they enthralled. 'If they cheat and lie to us, we'll cheat
> and lie back.'
>
>
>>That time, I
>>hope, is past.
>
>
> Undoubtedly; not even the USA could get away with such exploitation now.
> (;-) But some of it still goes on in India (debt slavery), even though
> it's illegal.
The US doesn't have to get away with it if its multinational companies can.
It's the East India Company writ large many times over.
-- Dirk The Consensus:- The political party for the new millenium http://www.theconsensus.org
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