[knarf]

evil big business again ...

They take advantage of cheap labor, (if the severance is $1900 (a years' pay) , $5 a day must not be so awful bad in that economy)

But the tire plant happens to be in the middle of a war zone (so to speak) and I'd imagine the houses (that Firestone probably built) are beingt burned down

So Firestone regretfully ousts anyone left in the house, gives them daddy's pay for a year, a sack of rice and burns the house down

yeah ... so ?

OK ... for those that may be accusing me of "fleshing out" a story ... (I didn't click any links, btw) .. the article doesn't appear to do much more than slam big business.

[HamiltonJay]

The sad reality, that most first worlder’s just don’t understand, is that in much of the world, human life is cheap.. period.

I don’t mean its cheap in a financial sense, I mean its just cheap, period.

[Ben Ficklin]

I guess it is just coincidental but PBS Frontline's show this past week was on Firestone/Liberia. It didn't cover any of the current events but was about events there 25 years ago when Charles Taylor took over the country. The show was co-produced by Pro Publica.

The main issue of the show was about whether or not the money Firestone paid Charles Taylor fueled the genocide. The show also gave a lot of details about how they treated their employees and the housing before and after they were finally allowed back into the country.

Firestone and the Warlord