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To: Scumbria who wrote (108408)	4/28/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: Kenith Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576768

Most family owned businesses don't have the cost advantage of barefoot Indonesian children working 20 hours a day for $5. How can you compete against that? Many software companies are using Indian (in Asian) to write software. Their paid is lower the burger flippers. Small farms in Europe and Japan have an unfair disadvantage to our large and corporate farms which also received welfare from Uncle Sam. Why is Uncle Sam promote monopoly (U.S. agriculture) in one hand while trying to break up the other? Face it, the Washington idiots have no clues.

To: Scumbria who wrote (108408)	4/28/2000 8:33:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576768

RE: Most family owned businesses don't have the cost advantage of barefoot Indonesian children working 20 hours a day for $5. How can you compete against that? So you wont all the barefoot Indonesians to lose their jobs? This is only partially a joke. People say that employees in third world countries are exploited, and from a certain viewpoint it may be true. But many of them would be worse off without the "exploitation". Also companies like Wallmart bring the cost of many products down. While that obviously hurts direct competitors, it helps the American consumer, particuarly those of modest means. Tim