Dear Lad,
° Did you ever buy you that Chinese baby? (I know folks call it "adoption," but that's like Don Imus's calling "young women" "---------------.") What did she set you back?
° I only ask because Marcello tells me that there's a 5-star hotel in Guatemala City with a room all fitted out like an animal adoption pen, or an alligator pit. Guests stand around and coo to the babies and select the one that comes when called, or whose markings strike the fancy.
° Costs $10,000 per baby.
° But $9000 goes to the middlemen, only $1000 to the mother.
° So the true fair trade cost of a beautiful, healthy, partMaya baby is $1000. Plus air fare. (Though if all nations abided by NAFTA's Infant Free Trade Treaty, of which the U. S. is a founding signatory, the fair trade cost could be expected to plummet to bargain basement levels.
° And at that point it will be vastly cheaper for the Government to outsource the production of American babies rather than to continue to subsidise our native labouresses.)
° Did you ever buy you that Chinese baby? (I know folks call it "adoption," but that's like Don Imus's calling "young women" "---------------.") What did she set you back?
° I only ask because Marcello tells me that there's a 5-star hotel in Guatemala City with a room all fitted out like an animal adoption pen, or an alligator pit. Guests stand around and coo to the babies and select the one that comes when called, or whose markings strike the fancy.
° Costs $10,000 per baby.
° But $9000 goes to the middlemen, only $1000 to the mother.
° So the true fair trade cost of a beautiful, healthy, partMaya baby is $1000. Plus air fare. (Though if all nations abided by NAFTA's Infant Free Trade Treaty, of which the U. S. is a founding signatory, the fair trade cost could be expected to plummet to bargain basement levels.
° And at that point it will be vastly cheaper for the Government to outsource the production of American babies rather than to continue to subsidise our native labouresses.)
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° But don't feel cheated. At least you have the satisfaction of having rescued one little Chinese baby from the agony of memorising all those heiroglyphs.
° Sincere as always, Giac.
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