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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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To: lastchance

“If you think this only about Levi’s profit margin you are sadly blind to reality.”

Reality is American workers in America need jobs provided by American companies. Africa is a pit where nation builders go to die.

Let the people in Lesotho fix their own rat hole country. We have our own problems.

Average IQ in Lesotho is around 69. No amount of aid is gonna fix that.

L


81 posted on 07/21/2025 12:22:15 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Let the people in Lesotho fix their own rat hole country. We have our own problems.

Wearing a wellmade comfortable Reebock pullover shirt that was made in Lesotho. If I pay 17%more, I would still buy it. It gives the people in Lesotho a good reason to stay in Lesotho.
I would buy products made in California if it made people stay there.

Not all manufactured products need to be or can be made in America at an affordable price. Unions fixed that. And union money supports Democrats.

So i pick and choose.


82 posted on 07/21/2025 1:09:10 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so )
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To: BenLurkin

I care about American citizens and American workers.
Other nations can care about their own.


83 posted on 07/21/2025 1:10:00 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: Lurker

Do you collect IQ test results for all other nations or is Lesotho a special interest of yours?


84 posted on 07/21/2025 2:55:41 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Robert DeLong

I read a story that garment factories in Africa and South America cannot compete with all the free clothes that the US charities send to Africa and South America.


85 posted on 07/21/2025 3:15:10 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: minnesota_bound

That makes sense.


86 posted on 07/21/2025 3:34:05 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: minnesota_bound

That makes sense.


87 posted on 07/21/2025 3:34:09 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: minnesota_bound

That makes sense.


88 posted on 07/21/2025 3:34:14 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

For some reason, it kept posting it to a new tab. while leaving me on the original tab. Sorry about that.


89 posted on 07/21/2025 3:37:35 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: lastchance

“Do you collect IQ test results for all other nations….”

It’s called a Google search, Skippy. Takes about 30 seconds.

You want to help Lesotho? Fine. Blow the dust off your own checkbook.

Leave the long suffering American taxpayers out of it.

L


90 posted on 07/21/2025 4:00:46 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Aren’t you a sweetheart.


91 posted on 07/21/2025 8:17:22 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: lastchance

“Aren’t you a sweetheart.”

I don’t give a rats ass what you think of me. This country has been hollowed out and damned near brought to our knees because of people like you. You’re really generous with other people’s money, jobs, and livelihoods because it makes you feel better about yourself.

“It’s only blue jeans and it’s helping those people over there.” Never mind about the thousands of jobs gone from the US because of this crazy policy. That’s who I care about. Americans.

Well I’m sick of it. The rest of the world can go hang as far as I’m concerned.

America First. Remember?

L


92 posted on 07/22/2025 4:22:39 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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