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Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:

It's funny, mostly because Barack Obama Senior was an economist and actually HARSHLY negative against socialism.

Very free market type of dude from what I understand.  I believe that's what got him blacklisted in fact.

A much better attack would of been how the father would of disagreed with the son on his economic policy.  The father being the one with actual economic training.

 

Though granted he did think richer countries were screwing over poorer countries and that poorer countries would get ahead by shoving out rich countries influence.

 

It means his father was a rebel against the system (such as it is). Kenya was single-party socialist at the time, which is probably why he held both of those views, that socialism was bad but that the capitalist superpowers were abusive of their status.

Wouldn't be surprsing.

I mean, I hold both of those economic views as far as third world countries go.

Third world countries should protect the hell out of the few industries they have until they grow diverse enough in their economy to weather through if a big nation does it better.

 

See Jamacia as a cautionary tale.  They did two main big things.  Chicken and Fruit.... United Fruit company destroyed their fruit market, and then American's had such a demand for white meat, they're chicken industry got destroyed as tons of low price dark meat flooded their markets.