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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: tariffs,shoes: a source
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 04:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 04:58:00 1985
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Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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Summary: 

>> >Well not to make an issue out of it particularily.... but one of the
>> >other comments during the CBC program (which may be of interest to
>> >those worried about putting foreigners out of work) was that the
>> >*highest* paid factory worker (all blacks) gets $40/wk which is
>> >below even the South African governments poverty line for blacks.
>> >It's easy to understand how the shoes from those factories might be
>> >cheaper. [John Chapman]
>> 
>> So, would they be better off not working and getting $0/wk? [David Canzi]
>
>yes [John Chapman]

Fine.  Let us agree, then, that South African blacks would be better
off with no food than they are now with inadequate food.  (This has
something to do with the *intangible* benefits of starvation, no doubt.)
Given this, it is, of course, immediately obvious that we must restrict
imports from *all* shoe-producing countries.  (The reasoning that leads
to this conclusion is so simple that I'll let you explain it.)
-- 
David Canzi

There are too many thick books about thin subjects.