[Jewelry making - Article 00375] - Re: [Orchid] India among lowest cost producers of jewelry

[MillsGem]

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Ian,

    You have raised some very cogent issues with respect to our consumer
    society. And, carrying the issue just a bit further, how in hell are
    we going to sustain a consumer economy when the average consumer is
    having to deal with progressively less disposable income? The
    American economy is in a downward spiral and yet, throughout recent
    history, it has been underpinned by baublemania. Most of the junk we
    have come to believe as being necessities has been the mainstay of
    our economy. Meanwhile, American workers are being let go by the tens
    of thousands, full time workers are being supplanted by temps who
    get no bennies and people who had careers now flip hamburgers. How
    long will it be before people start losing their homes to foreclosure
    ? Meanwhile the fat cats in Washington and the corpocracy are buying
    villas in France. ( Is it any wonder that, according to a survey
    released yesterday, eighty eight percent of Americans believe that
    the American government is massively corrupt !) Our government of
    lawyers is often characterised as being for sale to the highest
    bidders.........All governments have some elements of corruption;it
    is just a matter of degree. When it becomes rampant, it is just a
    matter of time.......... 

    As an older person I fervently wish that we could offshore our
    pharmaceutical needs. The medical establishment in America is
    outrageously predatory. My doctor prescribed a drug for me that costs
    over a hundred dollars per month. I did a bit of research and
    discovered that the doctors medicine was a plant derivative that is
    widely available as an alternative medicine......it costs five
    dollars per month and performs the exact same task ! 

Ron Mills, Mills Gem Co. Los Osos, Ca.

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