:17:01
And, in fact,
when he talked to CNBC,
:17:04
when he was debating,
:17:05
an activist, Barry Coates,
just sort of agreed with what he said
:17:08
when he said that this is what
the WTO does, and this is our position.
:17:12
And Barry Coates said,
"Well, that's funny. That's exactly right."
:17:16
So...after Salzburg, we got an e-mail
asking a representative of the WTO
:17:24
to appear on CNBC
MarketWrap Europe.
:17:27
And the producer apparently didn't notice
that gatt.org was not the WTO site.
:17:34
And Granwyth Hulatberi, which is
another name that Andy just came up with,
:17:40
responded and, of course, said,
:17:42
"Well, I'd be happy to go
on CNBC MarketWrap."
:17:46
And the producer wanted him to debate
an anti-globalization protester.
:17:51
If the WTO is serious about addressing
the issues of world poverty,
:17:57
it would do things
completely differently than it is now.
:18:01
Let me bring in Granwyth on that.
Is that a fair point?
:18:05
Well, of course it is, but I think Barry,
as well as all the other protesters,
:18:09
are simply, in a word, focused too much
on reality and on facts and figures.
:18:14
And I think I would have to say
that this is a long-term problem
:18:18
that comes down
to a problem of education.
:18:20
We have to find a way to convince
perhaps not the protesters
:18:25
but the protesters' children
:18:27
to follow thinkers like Milton Friedman
and Darwin and-and so on,
:18:32
rather than what the protesters
have been reared on...
:18:35
Trotsky and Robespierre
and Abbie Hoffman.
:18:38
And I think that putting
the direction of education,
:18:42
being put into private hands...
:18:45
a concentration of resources
in the private sector...
:18:48
will naturally lead to this result,
:18:50
and we'll see
the protesters' children being reared
:18:52
with an entirely different
set of concerns.
:18:55
Let me bring you in on that, Barry.
:18:56
Can-can I just say
:18:58
that these kind of simplistic arguments