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From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Live Aid - Dylan
Message-ID: <3327@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 15:32:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 15:32:26 1985
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From: wimp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Haferman)

>> RE: Bob Dylan asking for food for the farmers: Too bad.  They're in business
>> like the rest of us. If I overextend myself and go bankrupt well that's tough 
>> for me.  We're all humans (at least most of us) and I thinks it's more
>> important as a human race to keep our brothers alive than it is to give
>> money to a group of individuals who've already shown us that they don't
>> know how to run a business....besides, Dylan can't sing worth beans!

>How about "a group of individuals who produce the food that is keeping the
>human race alive."   Gee, where will food come from when this "group of
>individuals who've already shown us that they don't know how to run a business"
>go completely out of business.  Hmm, I guess we can just eat mangos and
>papayas like they did on Gilligan's Island...


People can't eat money; the food has got to come from someplace.  Since food
will be purchased, and since the US is the world's largest exporter of food,
some of this money will be going to these farmers anyway, with or without
Dylan.

David Olson
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