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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (54637)9/12/2001 2:55:00 PM
From: ptannerRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Bill, Re: "Even Greeks had slaves and became splaves in their turn."

Some old history book noted that slavery was a step up from the original disposition of captured enemies which was to simply kill them.

Re: "It was not until all people gained the right of self determination that slavery ended. The South did not want to get rid of all their expensive slave/machinery as they would then have to work for a living or hire workers."

Slaves in the South were very valuable by the time of the Civil War but once owned vastly improved the economics of the large-scale farming operations. Could we apply similar logic to many of the publicly funded water "reclamation" projects in the western US which provide extremely low cost water to principally corporate farming operations, despite the fact that the original charters for the programs specifically limited acreage to family scale farming? Now that the limits of the west's water resources are being strained and the environmental impacts are becoming more acknowledged will we be willing to say that a group should give up "its water"? (I am re-reading Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner and am astounded by the corruption and inefficiency. But that is what pork barrel projects are all about..)

-PT
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