[sheana]

Within a year, Negroponte expects his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child to get 5 million to 15 million of the machines in production, when children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, South Africa are due to begin getting them.

Yeah, I am sure there are plenty of poor kids in the good ole USA that would like a laptop too.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Within a year, Negroponte expects his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child to get 5 million to 15 million of the machines in production, when children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, South Africa are due to begin getting them.

Perhaps these children can get factory jobs producing them at 3 cents per hour.

[fire_eye]

Yeah, I am sure there are plenty of poor kids in the good ole USA that would like a laptop too.

Yes, but because they are Americans they are by dint of cultural inheritance members of the Oppressor Class, and therefore must assume secondary importance in the Global Village < leftie-liberal-academic-moonbat_mode off>