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'We are on our knees': U.S. tariffs devastate Lesotho's garment workers
NPR ^ | 07/20/2025 | Kare Bartlett

Posted on 07/21/2025 7:58:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 07/21/2025 7:58:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Levis should be making its products here in the USA. Not some foreign country.

Just my opinion.


2 posted on 07/21/2025 8:00:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Sounds like a deal needs to be made.


3 posted on 07/21/2025 8:00:33 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: BenLurkin

Lesotho is a country in South Africa.


4 posted on 07/21/2025 8:03:02 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: BenLurkin
Levi leaving was/is one of my pet peeves.
5 posted on 07/21/2025 8:03:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Robert DeLong

Southern Africa; not South Africa.


6 posted on 07/21/2025 8:04:16 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Robert DeLong

Well in a way it is in South Africa


7 posted on 07/21/2025 8:06:46 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: BenLurkin

My heart is breaking…


8 posted on 07/21/2025 8:07:47 AM PDT by bwest
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like a Lesotho problem to me.🤔


9 posted on 07/21/2025 8:07:57 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: BenLurkin

What honestly should be done is that countries should be trading with their neighbours and not simply be relying upon the US solely.


10 posted on 07/21/2025 8:11:28 AM PDT by Jonty30 (French doors are called French doors because you walk like a Frenchmen when you open them. )
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To: BenLurkin

LEARN_TO_CODE_PING!


11 posted on 07/21/2025 8:12:02 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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12 posted on 07/21/2025 8:12:58 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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If American companies go there and offer jobs, should the people refuse to take them?


13 posted on 07/21/2025 8:13:23 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SaxxonWoods

They have the power to make change. But they’d lose the ability to complain. It’s clear what they want.


14 posted on 07/21/2025 8:13:50 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: Jamestown1630

I totally understand that. American corporation multiple-folds what the local jobs pay, so they are much sought after.

However, I mean what I say in an organic way that countries should be seeking to develop themselves, so they are less dependent upon the goodwill of Americans.


15 posted on 07/21/2025 8:14:53 AM PDT by Jonty30 (French doors are called French doors because you walk like a Frenchmen when you open them. )
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To: BenLurkin

It is shortsighted of Trump not to take into account other factors besides the trade imbalance. Considering the situation of the increasing violence by Muslims in Africa and the political situation in South Africa (and other nations) it makes sense to help certain African nations stay economically viable and politically friendly to the U.S.

I know many will disagree because they think tariffs exist in isolation concerning only trade and have no bearing whatsoever on other aspects of foreign policy. African nations are indeed important to the U.S. and keeping China and Russia from gaining more of a foothold (Let alone Islam, and Socialism) should be a major part of decisions regarding how we deal with those nations.


16 posted on 07/21/2025 8:15:26 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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I agree with you.


17 posted on 07/21/2025 8:16:15 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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An entire "country" that's been propped up by the United States international welfare system so Levi's can have a higher profit margin?

No, let Levi's and the other companies exploiting them help them. After all, they are the only people these guys can find to sew garments together, they are vital to the success of these companies, right? Let these modern day slave plantation owners pay them more, provide decent housing and amenities, healthcare, HIV testing/medications...isn't Levi's big on the whole LGBTQRZFRKLSYBWOYADAYADAYADA movement and their particular health needs? Seems like a great opportunity to prove it.

Not one more thin dime of American taxpayer money for this garbage, NPR. This garbage...or yours.

18 posted on 07/21/2025 8:17:02 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: lastchance

“It is shortsighted of Trump not to take into account other factors besides the trade imbalance.”

He does take other factors into account.


19 posted on 07/21/2025 8:17:59 AM PDT by TexasGator (/I1.here is no Sharknado system)
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To: BenLurkin

Reading this makes me thankful NPR was defunded.


20 posted on 07/21/2025 8:20:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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