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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: bananas
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 12:05:54 EDT
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> > >=Paul Dubuc
> 
> > >Surely the American public isn't much
> > >aware of what's going on (we just enjoy relatively stable and cheap
> > >prices on bananas without realizing that the countries which produce
> > >those bananas have to produce more and more of them to buy the same
> > >amount of manufactured goods that they depend on for their productivity),
> 
>     I guess we're not aware of what's going on.  Are you telling us that
> we are somehow forcing these countries to sell products for prices lower
> than others are willing to pay?  If so, why don't they just well their
> products elsewhere?  Or do you mean that the world is just unwilling to
> spend as much on bannannas as these countries need?  
> -- 
> Jeff Sonntag

Not that I want to take part in this debate, but ... I think that the
issue is whether the U.S. is forcing Central America to _produce_
bananas cheaply, by depressing wages.

-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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