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Originally Posted by Jihad4Beer
Australia should do what Australia needs to do. You have competent leaders.
Just don't expect America to sacrifice it's agriculture industry for Australia's profits.
Food is a basic necessity. There is no reason for America to be dependent on foreign nations who OBVIOUSLY put their own interests above America's.
Get it?
Well don't hate America because it is the land of plenty. That just makes you jealous and shows your grievances are personal and not egalitarian.
I can't empathize with that, especially when it is obvious that everybody would love to see America fall. Everyone wishes America the worst and then they expect Americans to level the playing field for them? Whatever.....
China undercuts American manufacturing with cheap labor. What can we do?
Everybody deals with it.
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Jihad, I think as usual you selectively interpret the meaning of my post. The fact that the US has better land and resources is not an issue for me - good luck to you - but when in addition you have farm subsidies and the like - something which politically is really a form of agrarian socialism - we can't compete with you. In view of this - the FTA is not in our interests.
If academics in this country point this out - and it is in fact the truth - I don't believe they should be silenced.
This is not America, this is Australia - and although the PM might like to redefine it as a state of the US - we are a different country with a different history - and there is absolutely no reason for us to put up or shut up when our government does something which we are not in agreement with.
In actual fact - the criticism was not of the US - but of the FTA. It was NOT in the interests of our primary producers (and several other sectors) to sign it.
Please Jihad - try to stop reading everything I say as anti American. When you do you reveal more about your own biases than you do about mine.