Reply #92: As Well As Can Be Expected, My Friend [View All]

But my expectations are pitched pretty low, as you know.

For what it is worth, I have tried that one on with persons of decided rightist sympathies in the past, and found little disagreement from them with it.

It would have some problems in execution, of course, that should not be overlooked. Poor and exploitative as conditions often are in the cheap labor sinks that feed the "global economy", a great many people do rely on them for what little they have, and the throwing out of work of literally millions in the third world and China, that would certainly result from this, is not a light thing. That their economies might well develop better in the future if structured to local need would be scant comfort, and would have the hollow sound that the "all this is for the best" merchants trot out here has.