World Bank's Zoellick criticizes Buy American policy

Joanne98

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Tue Jun-09-09 09:44 AM
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World Bank's Zoellick criticizes Buy American policy

Source: Reuters

OTTAWA June 9 (Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick criticized Buy American policies on Tuesday and said tit-for-tat trade retaliation serves nobody's interest.

Zoellick said curbs on trade are "particularly dangerous" in the current economic environment.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSTOD00410420090609

You heard him. World bankster Zoellick saz it's very DANGEROUS for Americans to buy their own products. Very dangerous. So ONLY BUY products made in other countries and the economy will be back on it's feet in no time at all.

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LiberalFighter

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Tue Jun-09-09 09:58 AM
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1. I don't know if I would trust this guy. He was appointed by Bush.

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TheMadMonk

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Tue Jun-09-09 10:24 AM
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4. looks like that sad twat on "Just shoot me" nt

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The2ndWheel

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Tue Jun-09-09 09:59 AM
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2. "There is no America."

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html

"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels."

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blue97keet

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Tue Jun-09-09 10:11 AM
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3. What else would a World Bank President with a conflict of interest say?

So no part of our federal budget is off limits to trade agreements/bickering over trade issues although the bulk of the federal budget is little items like national defense/social securty/ medicare?
If those little items are not intended to be "protectionist" by definition and purpose then what is the point of having them at all?

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