RE: Life after the oil crash

Apples and oranges. ~ Janice

At 11:24 AM 10/28/2005, Tjalle T Vandergraaf wrote:
>I did have a quick look at the web site cited by Janice Matchett. One
>statement stood out for me, and I have copied it here (hope I won't get
>sued by copying without explicit permission!)
>
>"To repeat the message of the peaceful means of exchange, "If you do
>something good for me, then I will do something good for you." If both
>parties did not believe they gained through the trade, if each did not see
>the exchange as beneficial, they would not continue to take part in it."
>
>What if one party has next to nothing to contribute? I'm thinking here of
>the unfortunate victims of the hurricanes that hit the US Gulf Coast,
>Mexico and Guatemala recently. I suppose an incident reported on CBC
>speaks volumes to the concept of "peaceful means of exchange." A Canadian
>couple, vacationing in Cancun, reported that they had to exchange their
>wedding rings for some food and water. I suppose it was a peaceful
>exchange, there was no coercion, and both parties got what they wanted and
>therefore saw the exchange as beneficial.
>
>I'll have to read the entire article to become clued in, I suppose, but it
>would be nice if Janice would point out why the other guy would not be
>skewered under her system.
>
>Chuck Vandergraaf
>
>
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>From: janice matchett [mailto:janmatch@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:50 AM
>To: Tjalle T Vandergraaf; 'Glenn Morton'; asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: RE: Life after the oil crash
>
>At 10:41 AM 10/28/2005, Tjalle T Vandergraaf wrote:
>
>
>True, any scheme will involve some skewering of the other guy.
>
>
>### You have no
>clue. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352736/posts
>
>Janice
Received on Fri Oct 28 11:30:49 2005