Posted on 04/28/2005 4:41:23 PM PDT by churchillbuff
"Sweat shop?"
Sweat ship.
This is brilliant!
Seriously.
It also points out the absudity of the present confiscatory tax systems.
It also opens the door for more inovative states to do the same thing ON LAND!
This is total histrionics I think. How big of a boat is it? Are they going to pack thousands of coders there programming away? This is simply to raise the issue that you can always work around US labor laws.
What a great idea. The 21.5k take home pay will of course be reduced by:
1. lodging
2. meals
3. laundry
4. fuel share
5. waste share
6. etc...
for a net take home of a $100.00 a week.
Course, the old time mine owners thought of this long time agao.
Seamen have contracts with forum selection clauses for disputes to be settled outside the USA.
When the boiler exploded on the SS Norway in miami, there were about six sailors who died. The US federal courts upheld the philipine forum selection clauses which pushed the case back to the philipines. (translation, in the event of dispute the seamen are screwed.)
Work around is an understatement.
The navy uses ships all the time to house people inexpensively. For example, a naval conference in San Francisco last year used a maritime academy ship docked in San Francisco as a "hotel" for attendees. They have efficient power plants and lots of berths.
Let's outsource our congressmen and senators.... maybe even the president. One has to wonder where it will end?
you mean "Sweat Ship"
The first project that involved in was a total disaster. Only 30% of what we wanted was completed and it was a simple re-write/conversion. But some executive clown justified it was a success because of all the personnel health care we got rid of - despite blowing millions of real dollars. Somehwere, the word "quality" was missing.
Big Buisness in the Country has no loyalty to this country and will sell everyone down the river no different than the RATS and Commies.
JESUS, JOSEPH & MARY.
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