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Welfare and climbing 28-Nov-2008 At 9:48:40 AM martin saint

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On 27/11/2008 bomber pro wrote:
>Quakers in the USA forge their own axes, plow shares, and hammers, as well
>as nails, using recycled
>steel scrap, traded for with home grown produce, they have no electricity
>or phones, and the horses they
>drive to town also pull the plows that grow the food that feed them. sweeping
>statements made by you
>are just a tad uneducated. have an opinion by all means, just try not
>to exaggerate to justify them OK.

Not to be picky but... this isn't Quakers (aka the Religious Society of Friends), it's the Amish. Some of my best mates are quakers and quakers don't shun a modern lifestyle at all. There are several large software engineering firms in the USA run entirely by quakers. Their most famous businesses though are probably chocolate companies. For centuries they held a virtual monopoly of chocolate making in the English speaking world - Fry, Cadbury and Rowntree are probably the best known and I'm pretty sure that they didn't forge their own chocolate making factory with their bare hands.