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Skriven 2006-04-17 12:18:18 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 27278 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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16 Apr 06 18:53, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 SA> Hello Roy.

 SA> 15 Apr 06 10:20, you wrote to Robert Couture:

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 RW>> 13 Apr 06 09:15, Robert Couture wrote to FRANK SCHEIDT:

 FS|>>>> Sure we had some help, but the US essentially did it alone.
 RC>>> No they didn't.  It is a mistake for you to think that way.  They
 RC>>> had a key part and the resources that were of great value, yes.
 RC>>> But they hardly "did it on their own."

 RW>> Actually, we did. The Brits were there, but they were more of a
 RW>> hinderance than any help. Once 'Monty' was put in  his place, the
 RW>> whole war effort in urope went as smoothly as could be expected.
 RW>> What few Canucks were there wouldn't have made much difference if
 RW>> they hadn't.

 RC>>>>> But that still does not answer the question.  Since the U.S.
 RC>>>>> profitted the most from the war effort, how do you think others
 RC>>>>> still owe?  Pre war America was in financial ruins.  Post war
 RC>>>>> America was flourishing.

 RC>>>>> Seems to me that America was paid nicely.

 FS|>>>> *Our* efforts raised us out of the Great Depression -- our
 FS|>>>> *own* efforts!

 RC>>> Wrong.

 RW>> So are you.

 RC>>> Without the War and the billions earned by the war industry,
 RC>>> the U.S. would not have come out of the depression as well as it
 RC>>> did.

 RW>> But it would have come out of the depression far better off than
 RW>> anybody else.

 RC>>> Face it.  The war is what allowed economies world-wide to
 RC>>> flourish

 RW>> Wrong.

 RC>>> ... outside of the war torn countries ...

 RW>> Why didn't Canada's economy flourish? Afterall, it's the 2nd largest
 RW>> country in the world. Surely it must have had something it could
 RW>> have added to the war effort besides bodies.

 RW>> BTW, what happened to the near eastern Asian (Iran, Pakistan,
 RW>> Afganistan, Kazkistan, Turkmeistan, etc), mid and south African, all
 RW>> South American (including Mexico and Central America) economies,
 RW>> other than Argentina and Brazil? Why didn't they flourish?

 SA> Because the jolly old US of A robbed them blind? Perhaps.

Like New Zealand, those countrys were third world countries who had
nothing to rob them of.


Roy
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