That is something that needs to be done, and sooner than later!

What is completely amazing is that the supposedly regulator of trade, the WTO admits and even encourages trading with countries where labor rights are almost non-existent, for example China.

And corporations are thrilled about the idea of having slave hands in order to make their stuff that we buy as if they were gold. In part, I think it is our fault. Imagine, just for a minute, one million people decides not to drink Coke for one month. They would freak out. The only language this f_ckers understand is profits. The moment we step up and say no more of prodcuts made in sweatshops, they probably change.

Until we change the equation to create the greatest benefit to society (as a whole) from the least outlay of expense things will never change.

Even in Europe workers conditions are deteriorating, all in the name of being competitive. I look at it as a poker game. If someone at the table is cheating the only way to compete is to cheat as well. This is why any trade agreement without worker rights guarantees is dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Gigi actually thinks she has good arguments and will stick with them.

On the one hand, R2 has no investment in his droppings. On the other hand, he doesn’t show any real signs of thinking he’s smart.

It’s a tough one. But I vote for R2.

R_R is just flying solo, and his appearances are sporadic.

g_g smacks of an organized effort at times.

R_R tends more towards “Poo-n-shoo” these days, but g_g actually comes back to roll in it. Even R_R isn’t dumb enough to wonder if an associate’s degree is the same as a bachelor’s.

That’s a question I have been asking for many years now. Like the 92% of the people in this country who think they will be ok if we go into a Recession. Do they really think they will still have a job if the economy tanks? When none of us have any discretionary money to spend, who is going to buy their products or whatever else they are selling?

Tools like RR are undoubtedly sitting in a cushy job with a good income and good benefits. The thing they will never admit is that they have that good income and good benefits because of the unions. Even if your company if not unionized, the union gains affected your pay and benefits because your company had to match the pay and benefits the unionized company pays in order to remain competitive.

These tools really believe that the corporations in this country actually care about their workers and are going to do the right thing for them. They are wrong of course. Given the chance to screw their employees and still make the same profits, they will screw their employees every time. A good example of that is sending the good job that supported a middle class family to India.

One day at a time, and the occasional swift boot to the deserving groin.

The simple fact is that Corporatists do not want anything standing in their way to bring unskilled immigrants into the country to fill the jobs that union members do now. This I think is the plan by the Neo-Cons on both sides of the aisle have for the armed forces, which is offer amnesty and citizenship if you are illegal. Go to jail, back to your country, or fight in the marines/army.

What’s that old saying…

It is not enough that I win… I must also see my enemies suffer, too!

Thank you… thank you verrrry much!

Dimwit… what name do I post under? The Republic of STUPIDITY, no?

The name says it all…

Comment by Juan C. — January 25, 2008 @ 5:50 pm

Ya know, for a long time, I wanted to kill him. I never did.

I tell people I was always a lot nicer to him than he was to me, because I never went back and took a baseball bat to him. He knocked me out cold with a sucker punch once, when I was six. I never saw it coming.

I haven’t been east of the Rocky Mountains since the early ’80’s, because I was afraid that if I got w/in one day’s drive, I’d just say “F- it all!” and go get him. I haven’t talked to him in nearly 25 years.