On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:14:52 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Bob F wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
harry wrote:

Why do you hate children? The pre-teens of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
are now earning twenty-five cents an hour making sneakers, whereas
before they were living in poverty.- Hide quoted text -

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Twenty five cents an hour IS poverty.

Well, yeah, but at least these kids have something they didn't have
befo They have CAPITAL!

Some - possibly most - will splurge with their new-found wealth by
buying ice-cream cones. Others will save and invest their proceeds,
possibly by starting a shoe-shine stand or a pee-wee loan-sharking
operation.
Their future is immeasurably brighter, simply because the western
world allowed them to make the "things" we want.

It's for the children.

Just not OUR children.

If YOUR teen-ager wanted the latest Nike sneaker, you'd have to pay $499.99
for an American-made one instead of a paltry $295.00 for a pair made in
Nigeria.

So YOU and YOUR children benefit.

And the total landed cost to produce in Nigeria would be something
less than $29.50, so who is REALLY benefitting???