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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (50164)	10/8/2002 12:37:40 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Not so, the USA has increased farm supports which are detrimental to 3rd world countries and their ability to bootstrap themselves through agriculture. The EU has done the same. Both actions are reprehensible And both directly stem from the fact that both the US and Europe are democracies and their farmers and factory workers vote, have lobbying groups, and SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS to lose when foreign imports are permitted to enter the US in an unrestricted manner.. Especially when grown, or manufactured using cheap and child labor, in conditions of human squalor where wages are excessively cheap, and safety regulations practically non-existent. Sorry Noel.. I'm sure you would love to COERCE American and European workers to be willing to lose their jobs to cheap imports in some form of dictatorial regime of "freeness", but this here country is a democracy... The worst form of government, except for every other kind... Hawk