Re: a fourteen-year-old

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
JJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > "A conservative is a person who is pleased that the Bush tax cut
>> > > allowed her employer to hire on another worker."
>> > 
>> > ... based in India, for 1/8th the salary and benefit
>> > load.
>> 
>> Dang!
>> Do you wear $140.00 sneakers?
>> Chances are they were made in a Malasian sweat shop
>> by a 9-year-old who got paid less than $1.00 a day.
>> (And may have lost his or her fingers in a machine.)
>
>Small correction: Malaysia has a) no child labour, and b) too high
>wages for this kind of hand-jobs. If you replace it by Thailand or Sri
>Lanka, I might
>agree, but I suggest you check your facts before you publish them,
>son...

I find that Indonesian children make pretty good sneakers (but I get
the $30 variety, not $140).  Reebok used to (and may still) have their
classic nylon made in two places, Indonesia and China.  The Indonesian
children are apparently much better at their job than the Chinese political
prisoners.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."  But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of 
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.