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To: Resolute Conservative
Don't doubt you.

For example, I have two daughters who wear makeup that has a sparkly effect to it. Thousand of Indian children are forced to dig mica daily to be used as a component in that makeup.

I have a lot of sporting and camping equipment, so I'm supporting forced labor in China. Some of my cotton clothing probably originated with forced child labor in Uzbek cotton fields.

On the continent of Africa, - I use electronics, including a smart phone, so I probably use Coltan (Columbite-tantalite) in those. Coltan is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by workers forced to work by armed guards.

As I said before, global trade is one of the factors behind the number of people in slavery today.

42 posted on 01/04/2013 1:23:11 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster

That is one of the greatest sources of anguish I have as a free market capitalist, global markets. I despise them, but have to accept them as part of the model. Think of the countries that hate us that would be in the stone ages if not for global economy, as long as we don’t give away our technology as we have done over the last 50 years or so through student and work visa and a chicom president in the WH.


45 posted on 01/04/2013 1:41:51 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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