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To: cosmicforce who wrote (125218)	11/20/2009 12:54:41 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543757

<<<A custom clothing factory with direct sales could be making these at a profit, paying $24 per hour for labor to produce the $72 pair for jeans, assuming an assembly line could make 2 pairs per hour per person employed. That doesn't seem all that unreasonable. Our system doesn't reward that kind of entrepreneurship because Wal-mart would just go to the most depressed and desperate place in the world to get the price to $71 or $68 or $35, breaking the back of the local source.>>> First of all, I don't understand your logic. Nevertheless, it makes no sense to pay $24 for something that someone else would do for $2. Trying to making something like that work would inevitably distort everything. Talk about opening up a can of worms. Inevitably when you are talking about taking some kind of action you are talking about putting resources (money) somewhere instead of somewhere else. You have to put it where you can get a good return. The larger question becomes do you want to be subsidizing Boeing and other high value manufacturer or saving something like the garment industry.