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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:03 PM,  <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
> No, that's why I don't buy food from China.  Once of the reasons.  But the
> fellow who has trout ponds 40 miles from here and sells (or should be able 
> to)
> to me directly, why should he be under the same regulations as WalMart??

I agree completely. The answer, of course, is that WalMart doesn't
want the competition. I'm hopeful that if things get tough enough --
and I, like most people here, have every reason to think that they
will -- that small businesses -- can shed the regulations that are
solely intended to drive them out of business. Even the Russians
allowed peasants to sell from their small plots, for heaven's sake.

Marie