Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!robinson From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness? Message-ID: <22@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 02:45:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.22 Posted: Wed Sep 25 02:45:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 14:38:48 EDT References: <1394@utcsri.UUCP> <2188@mnetor.UUCP> <2223@mnetor.UUCP> <14@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1692@watdcsu.UUCP> <2550@watcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 15 Summary: In article <2550@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes: >price. Since these figures come from the North-South institute are >they for Canada & US (& maybe Mexico) in which case they work out to >< $2/yr/person (pretty small) or are they just for Canada? How much >is actually spent on clothes in total (i.e. is $500 million 50%, 10%, >1% or 0.1% of the total?). The above questions are rather irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that (low-tech) jobs are being subsidized to the tune of $83,000 per. If that isn't a gross misallocation of resources then I don't know what is. J.B. Robinson The opinions expressed above may concur exactly with those of Ed Broadbent. Then again, they may not.