The only hope is that the day will come when there is another Tiananmen Square and this time the Chicoms will back down and crumble like the Soviets.
1 posted on
06/24/2006 1:43:04 PM PDT by
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79 posted on
06/24/2006 3:16:36 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(Europe and the rest of the world can have the World Cup; the USA just settle for World Domination.)
To: wagglebee
"The iPod shuffles are made in Suzhou, Shanghai, where workers earn $100 a month. Sounds better doesn't it? Except these laborers must pay for their own food and accommodations – requiring about half their salary"
They might want to leave this out from their next posting of this - Food and Housing costs are half your salary ? Isn't that about right ?
80 posted on
06/24/2006 3:25:44 PM PDT by
RS
("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
To: wagglebee
Err.... scarier is that these are more like PRC military living conditions... let me see... why such stealth military conscription...
Damn, they got us again a tower.
83 posted on
06/24/2006 3:34:10 PM PDT by
JudgemAll
(Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
To: wagglebee
Well all this is well and good, but it appears to m that the ipod is a lot like the ink cartridge in your printer. It costs about 15 bucks to make and they sell it for 200 to 3oo bucks. the ink Cartridge costs about 1 buck to make and costs 45 bucks. And they bitch about windfall profits in the oil business.
85 posted on
06/24/2006 3:45:52 PM PDT by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: wagglebee
I have an iPod. And President Bush has an iPod. I'm very concerned about these reports. However, Apple is investigating them, and I'm awaiting to see what the investigation results in.
87 posted on
06/24/2006 3:58:18 PM PDT by
AntiGovernment
(A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.)
To: wagglebee
With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford . . .
You build sixteen iPods what do you get?
another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the iTunes store.
89 posted on
06/24/2006 4:03:35 PM PDT by
Huntress
(Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
To: wagglebee
How Ironic. Steve Jobs using a Big Brother Govt. To build his crap for capitolistic prifit! Its like 1984! Hmmm. Where have I seen that theme before?
"REVE ROBS RAYS BUILD HIS IPRODS FASTER!
97 posted on
06/24/2006 4:44:48 PM PDT by
Bommer
(Attention illegals: Why don't you do the jobs we can't do? Like fix your own countries problems!)
To: wagglebee
There is the irrational Wal-mart hate again. Blame friggin' Apple or the damn commies in China. Do not blame a company that brings the in the lowest prices. If the commies didn't work their people to death and the manufacturer's didn't ignore it, then the retailers (walmart) would have quite as low prices.
100 posted on
06/24/2006 5:08:11 PM PDT by
vpintheak
(I'm standing on a solid rock, what are you standing on?)
To: wagglebee
Didn't Joseph Farah used to have a brain back in the 90s?
108 posted on
06/24/2006 7:01:12 PM PDT by
Minn
To: wagglebee
The workers are there for the room and board they get, in addition to the wage.
The police are there to make sure the workers dont steal the ipods.
To: wagglebee
Now waiiiiit just a minute... where are the free traders?
Isn't this just good ol' capitalism in action?!
120 posted on
06/25/2006 6:53:39 AM PDT by
gonewt
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