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  • From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: American farmers still lean hard on government aid, and instead of rising export
  • Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 06:20:22 -0500


Minimum wage is what you get if you last even the first 90 days. You can be
fired any time for doing a bad job. You can be fired if the owner decided to
reduce costs by lowering the number of employees, doesn't like looking at
you, etc.

Minimum wage is not a guarantee of lifetime income support regardless of the
need for your services or products, the profitability of your business, or
the cost of your business practices to the environment and public health.

You're right. Farm policy is quite different and fairly complicated.
A better analogy would be tenure for educators. Tenure is a guarantee of
lifetime income support regardless of your effectiveness as an educator.

Del (who doesn't mean to slight teachers any more than farmers)







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