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["Richard Wagner" <rewagner@centurytel.net>]

Well they still grow silk in China. OTOH if Chinese factory worker assembling hi-tech high value products only get 17s cent per hour how much do you think they are paying unskilled farm workers? Besides few Americans want silk any more even at Chinese prices. I assume even fewer would want to pay American prices. It might be easier to ban cotton picking machines here so all the unemployed could support themselves by picking cotton

manually.