From: Eeyore on 23 Jan 2007 09:47 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > > > >>So you are telling me that the green bean pickers are getting > >>minimum wage? > > > >Yup. > > That would explain why a 12 oz can of green beans costs $1.29. Canned veg is hardly the cheapest way to buy them. It won't be the raw ingedients ( even when picked ) that cost that much. Graham
From: Eeyore on 23 Jan 2007 09:49 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > > > >All "western civilisations" import labour. In the EU most of it is imported > >from other EU countries. > > Now tell me another fairy tale. Where's the fairy tale ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 23 Jan 2007 09:51 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > That America bashing got started with the Democrat leadership > doing Bush bashing in their speeches overseas. Eh ? The USA has made it self very unpopular outside its own borders without the need for any Democrats speeches. Graham
From: Eeyore on 23 Jan 2007 09:54 unsettled wrote: > Antiamericanism has been so thoroughly built into UK > society for generations as an unrealized bias filtering > every thought related to world events that Brits have > come to think such thinking is "normal." How did you jump to that conclusion. I used to admire the USA. Graham
From: Eeyore on 23 Jan 2007 09:55
unsettled wrote: > T Wake wrote: > > > Do you mean to say that American soldiers / government representatives in > > foreign countries are not bound by American laws? > > They are bound by local laws. If we didn't observe local laws > we'd insult the host country. The host country is insulted enough simply by your mere presence there ! Graham |