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To: healey22
I just got back from the grocery store and iceberg lettuce is $2.69 a head and Romaine is $2.99 a head. I guess having slave labor is not keeping down the cost of produce after all.

That's right. The whole idea is to increase profits, not drive down prices for consumers. I hope you don't think businessmen care about everyone else that much. They are just out to make money like everyone else. Prices are determined by supply and demand, not what some traitor paid for 3rd world labor. The long term cost of all this is much more than we can afford. Young kids will never learn the value of an honest day's hard labor. Apprenticeships disappear. Your job disappears, so you train for a new one, which the gov't ships overseas as well. Pretty soon, the only thing left is whoring yourself out, or incorporating yourself so you can at least cheat on taxes like everyone else.

70 posted on 03/19/2002 8:15:28 AM PST by sixmil
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To: sixmil
It's amazing how a head of Iceberg lettuce costs 2.69, and yet you can buy 2 Big Macs from Mcdonalds for 2 bucks. Don't you see the raging disparity here? The system wants you to eat fast food. It's cheaper for you to eat at a restraunt, than cook the food yourself with prices like those. Pretty soon we will be totally dependent on corporations. Which is what the direction of America is right now. Corporate America, as opposed to America governed by it's citizenry. When a corporation has more power over government, than the voting populus, there is a huge problem.

My biggest complaint is going to Sam's Club, buying a couple hundred dollars worth of nutritious food, as opposed to junk food, and not having much to show for it. Yet, the same money spent, would keep me and my wife in fast food for three weeks.

71 posted on 03/19/2002 9:18:47 AM PST by MadRobotArtist
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