<div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/14 Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</blockquote></div><br>Why, the "stern sincerity" of the speech is quickly tempered by the continuing delusion of doing well by doing good in the best possible world, when he writes "The spread of capitalism is helping hundreds of millions of people rise out of poverty in India and China. That’s a fantastic thing for humanity. And if we manage it right, that can also be a positive thing for the United States, because the growing wealth of nations means billions of new customers for the kind of goods and services America ingenuity can produce."<br>
<br>Why should America be intrinsically more ingenuous than other nations, and why should they open their market to it unless it reciprocates, thus being flooded by cheaper, better products manufactured elsewhere?<br><br>
-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>