From: Eeyore on


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


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


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


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


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