Silly teacher...

Aight, so this happend yesterday in english class, kinda made me mad but nobody else seemed to have a problem with it so I'm curious to see what you fella's think.

We were in english and talking about poverty and the ways to prevent it, yada yada yada. The my teacher says "Another way we could help with the starvation in the world is to not buy imported food from tropical countries south of the equator. (She mentioned mexico in the list of countrieshere, which is not south of the equator, but I didn't bring that up.) By not buying their fruit and vegtables they have more for themselves."

Not word for word, but that's the details of what she said. That didn't quite make sense to me, so I said "Well they're getting money for the food they're selling, so it's obviously working out for them some how. If they didn't want to sell their crops then they don't have to." Too which she replied "Do you really think it's that easy?"

No, I don't think it's easy either way, their poor and will remain poor. How ever not buying anything from them is not going to magicly provide them with more food. What are your thoughts on this, my good sirs and ma'ams?

So, she wants to stop trade?

Although I'd be open to hearing your teacher's logic on why she thinks otherwise.UT_Wrestler

That's the thing, her counter arguement was "Do you think it's really that easy?".

Yes, putting a stop to free trade will definitely put an end to a country's troubles. :roll: It's a simple matter of supply and demand. The world price of goods determines whether or not certain goods are imported/exported. If the world price is not high enough to facilitate exporting then those south of the border countries will not export their goods. If the world price is too low countries refuse to produce more than is necessary, or the price would drop due to a surplus, and thus would not export.

[QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"] Although I'd be open to hearing your teacher's logic on why she thinks otherwise.wrecks112

That's the thing, her counter arguement was "Do you think it's really that easy?".

I hate it when people throw nonsensical rebuttals into arguments.

And I dig your avatar, TC.

I hate it when people throw nonsensical rebuttals into arguments.

Lab392

Funny...I just made a thread about my Classical lit teacher in this thread, with videos!

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I hate it when people throw nonsensical rebuttals into arguments.

xTheExploited

Hate, I tell ye!!!

Sounds like a grade school teacher thats try to PC, but fails at it because shes too lazy to do her research. Besides she probably doesnt get paid enough to give you the best answer anyway.