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DLW
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Date Joined Apr 2003
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Posted 9/10/2003 8:32 AM (GMT -6)

At the World Trade Organization they are currently debating the extensive subsidies given to agriculture in developed countries. The prolem is that these subsidies often push out of business farmers in under-developed countries and thus increase income inequality. That is what happened to farmers in the south of Mexico after NAFTA, many of them are poor vendors or beggars and poverty and crime have increased since then in that area...

Here is a link to the discussion at the newshour.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/wto/index.html

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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