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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Failyuh to comyoon'kate
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:53:52 -0500

When we use money to determine the value, then there isn't much difference between the prison slaves and the immigrant slaves. When the payment to labor is so low that local people don't want to do the work, something is wrong with the system of food production that isn't going to be fixed by dumping cheap labor into it.
Cheap oil, cheap labor; same difference.
The Business of America is Business, and that means 'buy low, sell high', and in Wendell Berry's words, "buy too cheap and charge too much".

Each stage of the process adds another level of buying cheap and selling high. That's the essence of re-localization: getting rid of the unnecessary middle-man 'gotchas' that the producers and consumers can't do very much about. Doing business at the end of a handshake or a pitchfork is simply a better way to remain equitable and reasonable. Reactionary thinking ends up creating a government program(immigration law changes) to maintain the middle profit ground for the Picklevendors who pit producer against producer and consumer against consumer while bribing government and advertising to support their crooked system.

They've already created the Drug War to confiscate property, the Terror War to confiscate oil prices (not so successfully), and now they are fighting Immigration War by telling us that "Americans don't want to do those hard jobs". Americans will work as hard as anyone. They just don't do it if its for lower wages than they can get paid to stay clean in an airconditioned office someplace. The consumer society is based on everyone being a Lord in a castle, but in order to maintain that class distinction, someone still has to be the peasant class and dig the rutabagas and slit the chickens' throats to make the nuggets.

Dan C.
Because the way the system works they only get pennies a day and that's
slave labor. Remember the old flick, Cool Hand Luke? The companies that use
prison labor are making a killing and lobby for more draconian laws to keep
nonviolent inmates incarcerated longer and longer for future profits. Of
course all that deprives families of breadwinners, and guess who gets to
support them? You do. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/28/2008 at 9:47 PM Boxleybeagles@aol.com wrote:

  
>Why can't we get non-violent offenders out of jail to work on farms and 
>then 
>send the money to their children?
>
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