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To: LibWhacker

So? Take a look at the situation from India’s viewpoint:

There was a fair and open bidding contest, involving a couple of high- altitude tests. The British plane displays sub-par performance in critical areas, and you want India to take an existential risk to support British jobs, just because they’ve provided what amounts to a very meagre amount, per-capita, as a deal-sweetener in disguise?

A couple of years ago, India sent aid and aircraft to America during the Katrina debacle. Would you be comfortable with the idea that India might have gained political influence in the American government because of the aid?

Charity in the expectation of returns is never true charity.


46 posted on 02/06/2012 1:04:12 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett
and you want India to take an existential risk to support British jobs, just because they’ve provided what amounts to a very meagre amount, per-capita, as a deal-sweetener in disguise?

You're jumping to conclusions. I don't "want" India to do anything. Never said I did.

Look at it this way: Suppose I'm a manufacturer who sells widgets for $100 each. My competitor sells his for the same amount. My widgets are inferior to his. So I put mine on sale for $95 so that I can make a profit and remain in business.

Have I done something wrong?

No, I, Mr. Widget seller, have done absolutely NOTHING wrong. If you, Mr. Widget buyer, think buying my widget poses some kind of existential threat to you, then you would be a fool to buy one from me to save a lousy five bucks.

But DO NOT try to blame me, Mr. Widget buyer, for your stupidity, greediness and lack of moral fiber, as evidenced by your inability to make a sound decision (especially when you believe your very life hangs in the balance) just because someone dangles five smackeroos over your greedy, grubby little out-stretched fingers. That's your failing as a person, not mine.

Anyone worthy of the label 'capitalist' understands this stuff implicitly. Socialists don't. It's buyer beware, not damn the seller.

53 posted on 02/06/2012 2:01:42 AM PST by LibWhacker
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