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A number of these countries have unspeakably exploitative child-labor customs and practices. If they are allowed to sell the products of those practices, it is like legalizing the sale of stolen goods or pirated copyright or patent knock-offs in a rich market. It encourages the thieving and enslavements, and gives the parents reason to have larger families and live on the child labor, and thus continually worsen the poverty problem, which it is pretended will be alleviated. The proponents know this; it has been pointed out to them repeatedly for generations. If one is abjectly beholden to the contraband-smugglers aggrandizement on the southern border, the worse things get in the countries to the south, the better.
Posted by: John S Bolton at Sep 6, 2004 1:09 AM