I do have trouble with the idea of the garment industry being monopolistic. About 2 miles from where I'm typeing this, in Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the East End of London, street after street is packed with small sweatshops, "import export" businesses, tiny fashion houses
Jim Choate:
Could you get a phonebook and make a list of the sweatshops. Enumerate them and then select 10% (if that isn't too many) and find out how many and to whom they sew their garments for?
They sew for fashion houses, and there are more fashion houses than anyone can count. Even if there was only a single redistributor, there would be no monopoly, since the cost of entry to the business of specifying garments, buying them, transporting them, and reselling them is completely insignificant. Jim's present day "monopolies" are as utterly fantastic as his past monopolies. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG AQQ4m5gWiSF/xJOyvQy7KPjabjDdEir3CLICtAtG 46+3JIjNxZp7bEJXNFOzcCPyLHbMGc054WKXwyqLb ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald