zoomerang II
War Child
America is sometimes so damn hypocritical. Around the world it goes gallivanting and espousing the notions of free trade, complaining when Europe gives preferences to local banana growers in the Caribbean instead of big American corporations, and now they are going to go and provide massive protection to American steel.
Why should modern efficient nations like Australian steel have to suffer at the hands of American protection tariffs, and lose our contracts because the American government PAYS its steel industry to be MORE inefficient.
And this is what we get. We dropped our tariffs in almost all home strength industries at the insistence of the US under the guise of the GATT and other bilateral agreements. Australian advertisements are now American. American companies will soon be able to own much more of our media. A lot of our primary manufacturers are foreign owned. All of our traditional food products are American owned. We eat north American pork and south American oranges.
I?m definitely not saying this is all bad - I think Australian industries are now the envy of the world in efficiency and competitiveness because of this. The Chinese premier came out and said that wheat was not a long-term sustainable product for China because Australia was far more efficient than it could ever be! I am in favour of free and open trade.
Yet it is time to recognise the hypocrisy shown by Europe and America to smaller nations. So Australia has one product that it can sell to America. Yes, its steel. And after we open nearly every industry to the world, what do we get from the chief proponents to do this? Closed doors. Thanks America, again we will probably support you at every turn, allow you to sell anything you like in our country, go off and fight your wars, and then as usual we?ll probably be shafted.
It?s not only us. Small poor African countries want to sell nuts and other products. But they?re not allowed. And then we have the gall to tell them to get their house in order.
Common George Bush. Show us what the level playing field is all about.
Why should modern efficient nations like Australian steel have to suffer at the hands of American protection tariffs, and lose our contracts because the American government PAYS its steel industry to be MORE inefficient.
And this is what we get. We dropped our tariffs in almost all home strength industries at the insistence of the US under the guise of the GATT and other bilateral agreements. Australian advertisements are now American. American companies will soon be able to own much more of our media. A lot of our primary manufacturers are foreign owned. All of our traditional food products are American owned. We eat north American pork and south American oranges.
I?m definitely not saying this is all bad - I think Australian industries are now the envy of the world in efficiency and competitiveness because of this. The Chinese premier came out and said that wheat was not a long-term sustainable product for China because Australia was far more efficient than it could ever be! I am in favour of free and open trade.
Yet it is time to recognise the hypocrisy shown by Europe and America to smaller nations. So Australia has one product that it can sell to America. Yes, its steel. And after we open nearly every industry to the world, what do we get from the chief proponents to do this? Closed doors. Thanks America, again we will probably support you at every turn, allow you to sell anything you like in our country, go off and fight your wars, and then as usual we?ll probably be shafted.
It?s not only us. Small poor African countries want to sell nuts and other products. But they?re not allowed. And then we have the gall to tell them to get their house in order.
Common George Bush. Show us what the level playing field is all about.