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[Dean VP]

Louis:

I don't want to pick a fight, but I just wonder how many people in the US
refuse to eat American farm products because there sure were a lot of us
under the age of 9 who helped produce it. And I suspect they still are. 

I have traveled extensively in the Far East, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, etc
and visited many of their factories. Let me assure you those were not slave
shops.  They had some of the best work conditions and wages in that area.
And the workers were very grateful they could get that kind of work.

We must be careful how we judge other countries and their work situations.
Many times it takes the whole family working to provide enough to survive.
Sounds like an American farm doesn't it. That wasn't caused by us and our
buying habits.  In fact the living standard there is improving because of
our hunger for low cost products.  Sure we have lost a lot of American jobs
due to Far Eastern cheap labor. But do you think we could make enough money
to buy the products we need if those low cost products were not available?

There are two sides to this issue. Neither one is very attractive.  

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

Forbidden fruits create many jams!

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Louis R Godena
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Well, I wouldn't knowingly have purchased a BMW or a Volkswagen made by 
slave labor under the Nazis, either, would you?  How about shoes or a pair 
of trousers made a by nine-year old in Pakistan?   I cannot believe you are 
solely a creature of America's Madison Avenue, where "value" and "lifestyle'

are incessantly invoked to get you to buy stuff you don't want, you don't 
need, just to impress people you don't even know.  When I see grown men 
acting like spoiled adolescents, doing whatever the media tells them, I 
worry about the hell America is coming to.

Louis Godena

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> In a message dated 12/4/2005 11:54:29 A.M.  Pacific Standard Time,
> gwill at toast.net writes:
> Louis,
>
> Shopping  Wal-Mart is purely optional, and none of us will mind terribly 
> if
> you choose  not to.  Shop around for higher prices any time you wish to...
> it's a  free country and it's your money.
>
> To answer your question... it's the  kind of person who understands basic
> economics rather than blindly opposing  what they don't really understand.
>
> George  Willer
>
>
>
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> Thank  You George that was very well said.  I applaud you.
>
> Walt  Davies
> Cooper Hollow Farm
> Monmouth, OR 97361
> 503 623-0460
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