{"id":661,"date":"2005-07-20T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/expanding-free-trade\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T17:11:37","slug":"expanding-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/expanding-free-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding free trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/4699373.stm\">Two large trading blocs using subsidies and tax breaks to give their own businesses an advantage in the global market? Who&#8217;d have thought it?<\/a> Yep, it&#8217;s the EU\/US show again! And this time the poor little diddums have gone running to mummy. Oooh! Oooh! The bad men&#8217;s nasty metal birdie got more money than mine! Waaah!<\/p>\n<p>Nosemonkey&#8217;s advice to the businessmen of the world? Grow up, crybabies. It&#8217;s a fucking plane. Of course it&#8217;s going to get subsidies, because it&#8217;s a fundamentally uneconomical way to travel.<\/p>\n<p>The classic, however, is the final line, which the BBC copyist must have had a nice chuckle over (even while misplacing his\/her commas):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;both sides insist that despite the trade wars, as the world&#8217;s two largest trading blocs, they remain committed to expanding free trade.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh! World trade, folks. It&#8217;s silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two large trading blocs using subsidies and tax breaks to give their own businesses an advantage in the global market? Who&#8217;d have thought it? Yep, it&#8217;s the EU\/US show again! And this time the poor little diddums have gone running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/expanding-free-trade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}