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WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
Business Insider ^
| June 3, 2011
| Robert Johnson
Posted on 06/04/2011 8:00:03 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell
“stuff” not “sturr”. Oops. Thought I’d invented a word, but it turns out Sturr is the name of a really great polka musician.
To: dfwgator
If this happened under Bush, ...
I can't remember if Pelosi's raising the minimum wage was under
Bush or Obama, but she didn't she try to exclude the increase
from US territories in the Pacific? That is, protect her campaign
donors that have canneries there?
To: Pinkbell
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posted on
06/04/2011 8:38:53 AM PDT
by
ken21
(liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
To: ken21
It did happen under GW Bush, his USTR Robert Zoellick set all this up.
Troll.
To: Pinkbell
My package of Hanes socks bought at Walmart say they are made in the USA.
Having said that, slavery didn't end with the Civil War.
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posted on
06/04/2011 8:48:53 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Pinkbell
Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made $211 million on $4.3 billion in sales last year. Express that $1.6 million on a per t-shirt, or per garment produced basis and it will be miniscule, very few pennies per garment.
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posted on
06/04/2011 8:52:41 AM PDT
by
Will88
To: Pinkbell
Once again the Obombast Organization decided to go “shorts”!
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:11:40 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
To: Pinkbell
So ‘da peeps are being held down by the Man... but the Man is a brutha. No wait, maybe Obama thinks $.31/hour is a ‘living wage’ because he plans to re-distribute more of our wealth there.
Like Richie ‘Gerbil’ Gere says, he’s our best president ever...
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:16:24 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
To: Pinkbell
"They don't say 'Hanes' until I say they say 'Hanes.'"
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:17:55 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Pinkbell
Once again the Obombast Organization decided to go “shorts”!
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:18:20 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
To: Spartan79
And when the minimum wage did go up for these Polynesian islands, the canning factories left as it was no longer profitable to stay there.
The leftist hypocrites know that minimum wage is a job killer. The goal is to move jobs out of the USA, per the Franklin School of Marxism. Make it miserable enough here, and folks will clamor for socialism.
The Dems aren't for the little guy, or they would not be behind the minimum wage - as that dries up the labor market for the littlest of the little guys.
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:20:54 AM PDT
by
slowhandluke
(It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
To: slowhandluke
It’s still plenty ‘profitable’ but just not quite as much when the wages go up. So off to a worse hellhole for the companies.
And these are the guys we are supposed to be for?
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:23:26 AM PDT
by
Tolsti2
To: Pinkbell
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:39:08 AM PDT
by
AmusedBystander
(The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
To: OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings
And then everybody starts getting up in arms when the Haitians get turned around in the middle of the ocean, but the Cubans get one foot on land and theyve got it made. And then nothing changes. And nothing gets better. The one constant is that it always gets worse for the Haitians.
While I strongly agree with the sentiment of posters who say the government should not be doing the bidding of corporations...
WAIT JUST A COTTON PICKIN' MINUTE HERE.
Since when is it the job of Americans to secure a future for Haitians?
The fact that they have our companies as employers is a BONUS not some form of entitlement. Perhaps they should get off their butts and make their own companies and their own jobs and their own economy?
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:52:26 AM PDT
by
EvasiveManuever
(Shakespeare got it wrong. Not the lawyers... journalists.)
To: tlb
Obama cant help selling out the poor for the benefit of the Levis Corporation. Blame genetics. Its in his mom jeans.
Fixed.
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:53:30 AM PDT
by
EvasiveManuever
(Shakespeare got it wrong. Not the lawyers... journalists.)
To: Will88
But a cut of 6-7% of their net profit is not miniscule.
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:56:03 AM PDT
by
EvasiveManuever
(Shakespeare got it wrong. Not the lawyers... journalists.)
To: Pinkbell
$3 a day starts putting their wages too close to the $100 a month the workers make in the socialist paradise of Vietnam. Lose a war to us and you get high-paying factory jobs. Fight us to the end and your people earn $100 a month. Iraq? Afghanistan? Libya? Do you see the message here?
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posted on
06/04/2011 10:01:19 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: EvasiveManuever
Since when is it the job of Americans to secure a future for Haitians?
...Never said it was. What I'm saying is that it's not the job of Americans to actively screw over people who already have nothing, especially considering all that will do is drive them to leave their country... and try and come to ours... where we also don't have enough jobs.
Perhaps they should get off their butts and make their own companies and their own jobs and their own economy?
Not sure how feasible that is, considering you can't abracadabra start-up capital out of thin air with a workforce making thirty cents a day:
Already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty, the damage to Port-au-Prince caused the country's GDP to contract an estimated 5.1% in 2010. (CIA World Factbook)
GDP (per capita) $1,200 per year
Unemployment rate: 40.6%
Does this sound like the next great industrial power in the making to you?
To: Pinkbell
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what MLB pays the Haitians to stitch their baseballs together?
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posted on
06/04/2011 10:34:10 AM PDT
by
Tucker39
To: Pinkbell
Think this will be covered by the MSM? Outrageous.
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