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To: RealMuLan who wrote (37568)	7/22/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Jim S	Respond to of 117029

You're right -- it IS up to the companies (and their governments) whether to take advantage of the cheap labor or not. And if the only way to get to use that labor is to give away or sell what we should keep, then we don't do business. We lose some incremental profit, and the Chinese people remain poor. Lucky for us, we still have the rest of SEA, Latin America, Russia, and parts of Africa as our potential labor pool. Who do you have? jim

To: RealMuLan who wrote (37568)	7/22/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Bobby Yellin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117029

looks as if we are closing the circle again.. if Jim's wife had taken his money and bought a lot of stuff from China and then sold it to people here for a lot more money and gave back Jim his money plus even more money, I wonder if Jim would have kept his wife..even if Jim's wife took advantage of children and women..ie supposedly Nike in Indonesia..and even if Jim's wife caused a lot of poor people in this country not to have other companies in this country hire them because cost of living to high here for those people to survive on what the people in China etc were getting paid..and thus not be able to compete with Jim's wife and instead either go out of business or look for other countries to get cheap labor and parts.. (I used to be friendly with a fellow from Puerto Rico years ago who told me that a shoe company used to have the shoes made in Puerto rico and then exported them back but because of duty etc they were way too expensive for the average Puerto rican.. Anyways that is why I wonder if part of the trade deficit is not what it appears to be is that triage..