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To: willcousa who wrote (142101)	5/3/2001 3:19:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

They perpetuated economic imbalances I've been to Japan a number of times, the first time being in 1969. One of the amazing things there that you would never see in this country are those tiny little farms- -a few acres- -being operated by a single family with little or no machinery. In this country a farmer operating on that scale would starve. Over there, the government long ago passed legislation protecting and subsidizing these people. Now there are so many that they are a political power unto themselves that seemingly cannot be eliminated. The Japanese consumer pays the price in high taxes and high food prices. Average Japanese income is high, but there standard of living by American standards isn't particularly good.