-- On 20 Oct 2001, at 16:31, Jim Choate wrote:
What it takes to have reasonable living standards and sufficient resources to help ones children do better than themselves. The reality is that these sweatshops do exist, that they do exploit the workers, and that they are specifically managed to keep the workers from exploiting economic, social, and educational resources. Why? Because if the producers allow this behaviour they put themselves out of business.
Commie bullshit. They are not poor because western capitalists are hiring them. They are poor because western capitalists are prevented from hiring them. Closing down the "sweatshops" makes third world people poorer, not richer. The poorest asian countries are those that tightly controlled their economies and excluded foreign enterprises, notably India, Vietnam, Nepal, and Burma. The richest are those places that a few decades ago were supposedly being oppressed for sweatshop labor by the evil capitalists -- Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan. Today the "sweatshops" are primarily in markedly less capitalist places, notably Vietnam. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG VC6rCCa/8NlTc4yknaikPeX+v1K5OpxSroJGyxsx 48B4dg+MuWTijUu6JPzC3WioXT40voLmzsMqP/Clh