Re: a fourteen-year-old

> > 
> > > "A conservative is a person who is pleased that the Bush tax cut
> > > allowed her employer to hire on another worker."
> > 
> > ... based in India, for 1/8th the salary and benefit
> > load.
> 
> Dang!
> Do you wear $140.00 sneakers?
> Chances are they were made in a Malasian sweat shop
> by a 9-year-old who got paid less than $1.00 a day.
> (And may have lost his or her fingers in a machine.)

Small correction: Malaysia has a) no child labour, and b) too high
wages for this kind of hand-jobs. If you replace it by Thailand or Sri
Lanka, I might
agree, but I suggest you check your facts before you publish them,
son...

> American manufactures are outsourcing production
> to Third World countries at an accelerating rate,
> causing plant closings and unemployment here at home.

> Since their costs are so disgustingly low to begin with,
> I suppose consumer goods manufacturers can still turn
> a tidy profit from their former employees who now must
> work at low-paying jobs flipping burgers and mopping
> floors.

Is that worse than glueing soles on shoes? The issue might be here
that, though the cost to produce these shoes (including shipping etc.)
has decreased dramatically, but that the stupid western consumer still
pays the same high amount. Which allows more money for Republican
campaign funding by the corporate community.

Q.E.D.