Re: a fourteen-year-old

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Russotto) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> JJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > > "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...

Gee wiz.  I should have just said, "Third-World sweat shop."
Does it really make much difference?
I'm glad you have the time to look up the details I missed.

How about American Somoa? Does Wal-Mart still run slave labor
camps there?
Wanna look that up for me, son?

Mexico, China, Asia. Latin America...
Throw a dart at a map of South America.  If it lands on a poverty
stricken area, chances are Rubbermaid, Nike, GE and hundreds of other
corporations have sweat shop/slave/child labor factories there.
To be fair, GE prefers Mexico, poor Asian areas and China.

What's the real difference between a Malasian "sweat shop" and
"slave labor?"
Can you say with 100% certainty, taking bribery\corruption into
considrration,that there is NO child labor in Malasia?
Local laws don't mean squat if officials are paid to look
the other way.
Third World countries are rife with slave labor/sweat shops
--and child labor-- to provide our industries with inexpensive
product and next-to-zero overhead.

> 
> I find that Indonesian children make pretty good sneakers (but I get
> the $30 variety, not $140).  Reebok used to (and may still) have their
> classic nylon made in two places, Indonesia and China.  The Indonesian
> children are apparently much better at their job than the Chinese political
> prisoners.

Bottom line:  this crap is happening.
--In Malasia, too.