Re: New Melbourne trams have fewer seats than the old ones but they're longer!

[smiths@pobox.upenn.edu (Exile on Market Street)]

In article <39A2489A.361F@iprolink.co.nz>, David McLoughlin
<davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote:

> I have never promoted any such thing, I have merely observed the irony
> of how the US goes out of its way to prevent the importation of many
> fine unsubsidised NZ products into the US but insists other countries
> including NZ allow absolutely free access for subsidised and protected
> US goods.

Now that is a valid -- and interesting -- point.

I guess that there is no US kiwifruit growers' lobby to offend, whereas
OTOH, the cattle ranchers would, er, have a cow if we allowed too much
foreign beef in.  Besides, that foreign stuff doesn't have those beneficial
growth hormones the domestic product does.

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