Profits don't come before people

 
Nipawin - March 16, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis
   

human
rights

Our journalist Terence Corcoran of the National Post has been explaining to us "Why
profits come before people(1)" while at the same time he himself doesn't know what is
fundamentally right in our social and economic environment. We have been describing
that human rights come before property rights(2), that people come before the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP)(3), and that intelligence rests with the people and not with the
big multinational corporations(4).

 

 

property
rights

These fundamental truths have no place in the brainwashed mentality of Mr. Corcoran,
and this journalist preaches our social and economic growth as dependent on the intellectual
property rights owned by the multinationals.

 

 

an essential
drug

Therefore, Mr. Corcoran advocates the use of these intellectual paper rights to make
profits against the intelligence of the people and their well being. Mr. Corcoran concurs
with the right of a pharmaceutical multinational company of having the monopolistic
right of being the only company to market an essential drug for the salvation of humanity.

 

 

at the
expense
of people

This is the philosophy of the World Trade Organization, to make money at the expense
of people and this not what free trader Adam Smith envisioned when he said that the
wealth of a nation is in "the property which every man has in his own labour, as it is
the original foundation of all other property(5)." Profits don't come before people .
Mr. Corcoran

 

 
------------References/endnotes:
   
  List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com
   

 

CANADA'S ECONOMY IN THE NEWSPAPERS, By Brian MacLeans', http://www.geocities.com/brian79/macecon.html

 

 

1.
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Why profits come before people, Terence Corcoran, March 8 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010308/494357.html

 

 

2.
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On Hernando De Soto, a mechanical economist, and Douglas McGregor, a humanist at work, by Mario deSantis, December 30, 2000

 

 

3.

A common economic language: People come first, by Mario deSantis, March 1, 2001
   

4.
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Intelligence is People and it is Democracy, Intelligence is not Multinational Corporations and it is not Globalization, by Mario deSantis, March 5, 2001
   

5.
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The Relevance of Adam Smith. Smith and the American Bicentennial, By Robert L. Hetzel, http://www.rich.frb.org/generalinfo/pubs/relevance