I hope the real estate market picks up soon.

This blogging is getting addictive.

Is there a support group for this, I wonder?


-- In [email protected], "Paul Vail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The retailers are correct.  The Asian ecomies are the fastest 
> growing in the world because of America's appetite for inexpensive 
> Asian made products.
> 
> True slave labor exists in countries like Burma and North Korea, 
not 
> in free Asia.  This is where the gutsy human rights activists 
focus 
> their energies.  The psuedo activisists that go around pointing 
> fingers at succesful American Companies often have an agenda that 
> has little to do with improving the lives of factory workers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "oakdorf" <oakdorf@> wrote:
> >
> > >>> paul, you're taking the retailers response that they are 
doing
> > "good" for those countries.
> > 
> > While that may be true the fact is they do work extended hours 
and 
> is
> > near forced labor in many cases. There are plenty of guys that 
> travel
> > the world seeking the cheapest sources. Many of them are here in 
> the
> > summer. We all buy the stuff and typically overpay.
> > 
> > I don't know what's right or wrong, other then we should be able 
to
> > print a single piece of paper here in the US instead of mexico or
> > china or indonesia. As proven again with the lead paint in 
> everything
> > - there is alot that goes unchecked or checked and bribed away. 
So 
> how
> > many of those workers may have some type of lead poisioning? Or 
> lung
> > cancer? Education? 
> > 
> > Yea, it is pretty good here in America. We provide alot of 
things 
> here
> > to those less fortunate, SOME of who take advantage of it or 
abuse 
> the
> > system, refuse to work or have NO incentive to go to work 
because 
> the
> > pay isn't as good vs remaining home. It's an ugly cycle.
> >
>




 
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