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China's Toy Sweatshop Pays 36 Cents An Hour
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| December 20, 2007
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Posted on 12/21/2007 9:32:26 AM PST by kellynla
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:32:28 AM PST
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kellynla
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:34:04 AM PST
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kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
Can’t wait for the shills to show up and defend this.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:35:36 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: kellynla
Purchase * Made in America * toys and pet items O.N.L.Y.
Why would you put someone/something you love in jeopardy?
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:37:01 AM PST
by
xtinct
(I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
To: kellynla
To: mysterio
Forget the shills. Will the MSM pick this up?
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:41:15 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
To: kellynla
Michael Reagan speaking about his father
Sure, he was a free trader who wanted too open up trade, but he always sought first to protect the sovereignty of the United States and its manufacturing base. He did not confuse free trade with giving the store away.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:44:23 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: kellynla
The Consumer Product Safety Commission warned the candles should not be used because of the fire hazard they pose.Flammable candles -- there's a first.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:45:05 AM PST
by
MediaMole
To: Dahoser
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:45:34 AM PST
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mysterio
To: mysterio
There are lots of nations that had businesses that used to pay like this. They were among the best jobs available, and helped give people a an alternative to trudging behind a water buffalo.
In those nations, many jobs now pay much more, the next generations have better hope of education, and the manufacturing is much more skilled and high-value.
China’s problem is government, not the fact that the market for labor is cheap.
Unless people are enslaved to take these jobs, I have no problem at all.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:51:36 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
("We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them, I won't chip away at them" -Mitt Romney)
To: kellynla
a new report shows the average Chinese worker making toys is paid a meager 36 cents an hour just 2.5 percent of what U.S. toy manufacturers pay domestically.If the cost of living in the US and China were equivalent, this comparison would be relevant. A far more relevant question is whether or not the Chinese factory workers are earning enough to provide for their families. In general, they're not -- and that's a far more morally-compelling statistic.
To: Beelzebubba
I do have a problem with workers living in the factory and making slave wages anywhere in the world. It is not necessary.
Not that I think we should go over there and liberate them, but we shouldn't import their slave-labor made junk. Let them sell it to each other.
These ChiCom slave drivers are the ones buying our debt. Do you want to be beholden to them?
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:56:15 AM PST
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mysterio
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
I’m far more concerned about China supplying weapons to our enemies and stealing our technology than I am about the wages of the people producing the garbage they send to us.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:56:30 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: kellynla
I don't care if they are paid 1 cent a year and work 23 hours a day uphill in both directions without shoes - so long as they are working there of their own free will.
However, I do stay away from cheap Chinese goods which have been shown or appear to be toxic, dangerous, or otherwise unacceptably substandard. "Made in China" to me means "buyer beware" even moreso than usual.
As for the 'American jobs' argument, don't blame China or the consumer. 100% of the blame belongs to the government for imposing tax and regulatory systems which are domestically ruinous, especially under the conditions of international trade (where a tax arbitrage opportunity is presented). Labor costs are a small fraction of the picture, basically negligible compared to taxes. Replacing income (including corporate) taxes with a flat consumption tax would mean an equal levying of taxes upon domestic and foreign goods and labor. Outsourcing and offshoring would reverse themselves overnight.
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posted on
12/21/2007 10:02:08 AM PST
by
M203M4
(True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
To: kellynla
“the average Chinese worker making toys is paid a meager 36 cents an hour ”
And that would be 36 cents more than these workers would make if they wern’t working anywhere.
To: mysterio
Having started out my first job in Kentucky in 1947 at 10-cents an hour, these guys are ahead of me—starting out.
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posted on
12/21/2007 10:13:12 AM PST
by
tailgunner
(Conservative-Libertarian-Confederate-American Registered Republican)
To: tailgunner
10 cents in 1947 is a dollar now.
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posted on
12/21/2007 10:14:52 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
“And that would be 36 cents more than these workers would make if they wernt working anywhere”
Brillant! LMAO
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posted on
12/21/2007 10:20:44 AM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
This isn’t a comment on China and trade, just on the title of the article. There have been a lot of articles over the past that promote this misleading idea. Chinese paid .34c per hour. What they don’t say is what does that translate into purchasing power in China. The left loves to use titles like this to play on sympathies, yet they have no perspective.
I recall in the 80s a big fuss over Nike in Vietnam paying workers something like 10c per hour. What the article didn’t state is that in the Vietnamese economy at the time, the average worker made 2c per hour, so working for Nike greatly increased their lifestyle and caused there to be high demand for Nike jobs in Vietnam.
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posted on
12/21/2007 10:21:24 AM PST
by
mnehring
(Ron Paul: 'When fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross'..)
To: mnehrling
yeah, those workers dorms are luxury condos too
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