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Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
Globalization is a Moral Imperative
I believe this with all my heart, that the drawing together of the world's nations in a web of financial and cultural interdependence is the answer to the world's problems.
Which is why I am so disturbed at the tone of many of the Democrats running for the Presidency. Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean threaten to pull the United States out of NAFTA and the WTO, completely ignoring the rage this would inspire amongst our closest allies. What's the difference between Bush pulling out of the ABM treaty and Dean pulling us out of NAFTA? The ABM treaty was useless and obsolete and everyone knew that yet the US pulling out of the treaty raised howls of protest around the world. Imagine if Howard Dean pulled us out of NAFTA, over the objections of the Canadians and Mexicans, and in the process destroying the livelihood of over 2,000,000 Mexicans who's jobs are as a direct result of NAFTA. Protectionism is what pushed the US economy into the Great Depression and trust me, the models are there to prove it. Dean, Kucinich and the rest of the anti-globalization crowd are leading us down a road to ruin.
Globalization is irreversible, this is fact. We cannot now attempt to undo the web of interdependence that we have built with other nations and not only because of the anger this would cause. We cannot attempt this because we would then admit that sharing our wealth is not the answer to the seemingly intractable problems of the third-world. We would be admitting defeat. This is not the world I want to build for myself and those that follow me and I will not sit silent and allow the anti-globalization crown to monopolize the high-ground on this issue. The answers and the future lie in globalization and not in the building of a "Fortress America."
5:07:10 PM 
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First Day..
Today was my first day of the new term, which went well.
I also went and registered my new car, the new (old) BMW. I had to wait in line at the emissions place for like, 1.5 hours. What a pain-in-my-ass. Then I had to go to another quasi- government outsourced office to register the car and transfer the title. All in all I spent almost three hours on that shiz when I could have been doing more productive things like studying, working out etc...
Tomorrow I am going to get my hair cut and dyed back to it's normal dark brown. For the past 4 months it's been platinum-white, it looks like Mark McGrath's of Sugar Ray, and now I've got dark roots just like I wanted. But I'm trying to project a more professional image at school so I am going to get it dyed back and then trimmed, or I am thinking of going really short again. We'll see.
Short... or not?
4:19:28 PM
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