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Letter from T llberg: 350? Well, Poo

Posted on June 27, 2008

The former President of Costa Rica, Jose Maria Figueres, has just congratulated another Latin American leader (a government minister in Equador -- her name is not in the program) who was recounting a success story that had lifted farmers in her country from one dollar per day to $3.50 per day in income. Your farmers, says Figueres, have just surpassed the income of a European cow. They earn roughly $3.00 per day, in subsidies from the European Union. Routinely, it is quips like this, pointing out the absurdity and intensity of inequality in the world, that gets applause here at T llberg...

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