Modern thought agrees that oil-producing countries have all the rights to what happens to be under their soil. But not one single OPEC country ever contributed anything to the technology that makes oil valuable. Not one OPEC country found the oil under its feet. OPEC countries are not capable of getting that oil out from under their feet themselves.
But every liberal, and therefore every respectable conservative, insists that the people of a country that has oil accidentally under their feet have the right to what it is worth, AND the right to set up a monopoly to keep that price up.
That is the FIRST agreement of modern thought. Here is the second:
While the people of oil producing countries have not had anything to do with oil production or value, countries where living standards are high BECAUSE of the citizens of the country have no right whatever to any of the benefits they have produced. Mexicans pour into the United States because Mexicans are lousy citizens of Mexico. They have made a disaster of their own country, so they seek “opportunities” in the United States.
Why does the United States provide these “opportunities but Mexico doesn’t. There is one reason, and ONLY one reason: America is run by Americans and Mexico is run by Mexicans.
Ok, let’s hit the standard excuse, The US has more resources than Mexico. Japan has fewer resources than Mexico by far, and it has a standard of living comparable to America’s, though prices are out of sight. Exactly the same is true of every European country.
So people who happen to be born on oil-producing soil have aright to every dime’s worth of oil they happen to be born on top of. But people who MAKT their country better than another have no right whatsoever to the higher living standard in America. The third world has the right to the same “opportunities” which they had nothing to do with earning.
#1 by Alan on 01/13/2007 - 7:44 pm
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Funny, the oil rich nations of the Middle East are nothing more than welfare dependants. White mans industrial and creative ingenuity resulted in the tecnology that alows this ol to be pump, shiped and refined, plus its out wealth from our productiveness and ceativity that funds this racket, we buy their oil. Remove the money and technology and all you would have in the Middle East is, goat herders.
Bob’s point is awesome, we provide our hard earned riches to others who not only created nothing but will most likely never add anything of value to it. Its IS a massive brown skin, social welfare program.
#2 by Dennis on 01/13/2007 - 11:21 pm
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Modern thought has it, that by default, humans, regardless of creed, are able to create first world societies like the one that Americans have created.
Because by default, we are all capable of advancing ourselves and creating a free, just and technically advanced society, it stands to reason, any nation that falls short of this, falls for a REASON. That reason is suppression or inhibition of some form. Either suppresion by foreigners (ie, evil whitey) or environment.
Therefore, it is seen that the profits are rightfully theirs, because they would have it otherwise if it was not for some exceptional factor.
Note, I said that there is a widespread assumption, that because someone is of the human species, they have an innate capacity to build a first world society. This is an assumpton that we have about humans as a while. There is no reason to hold such an assumption. First world countries are the exception amongst the human species, not the rule. Being able to utilise the riches in the ground, is something that is an exception amongst humans, rather than the rule.