[InterceptPoint]

So these kids are working 6 or 7 days a week for what looks looks to us to be meager wages. Is that bad? Sounds bad. But consider the alternative: starvation or something close to that. At the minimum it would be back to the farms and back to scratching out a living trying to grow your own food.

Clearly, that is not what they want to do or they would simply quit their jobs and do so.

Read a little history. It was not that long ago in this country when children had to work to survive. We don’t do that anymore. We worked ourselves out of it and so will the Chinese. Give them some time and they will move from the 19th to the 20th century. And maybe, in time, to the 21st.

[donna]

I think you are counting on Christian values in non-Christian countries.

[aldabra]

So these kids are working 6 or 7 days a week for what looks looks to us to be meager wages. Is that bad? Sounds bad. But consider the alternative: starvation or something close to that. At the minimum it would be back to the farms and back to scratching out a living trying to grow your own food. ...

The problem is these kids have jobs at the expense of American workers with the blessing of the leaders of global corporations run by citizens of the world.

[dfwgator]

Read a little history. It was not that long ago in this country when children had to work to survive. We don’t do that anymore. We worked ourselves out of it and so will the Chinese. Give them some time and they will move from the 19th to the 20th century. And maybe, in time, to the 21st.

Exactly.

[dfwgator]

Because China at least is smart enough to understand it’s stupid to have a minimum wage regardless of a person’s age....the minimum wage here has killed teenage employment.