16 Apr 2011 10:50 pm
Avenger_of_Justice: you have been an outspoken proponent of sweatshops and involuntary servitudeQuote me supporting any such thing, liar.Are you denying that you defended Tom Delay and his shameful behavior in supporting the sweat shop owners in the Northern Marianas Islands, and blocking any legislation that would have helped those workers? Because if you are, I can easily dig up your posts on that subject.I see you ignored my question Puss.I wonder why?Maybe this is why......What Clem said about sweat shop workers in the Northern Marianas Islands:paying workers five times what they'd earn at home is a success.And keeping workers penned up like cattle, behind barbed wire is okay with you, I guess?So what if they earn five times what they could at home? They are locked up and forced to pay for their housing, food and medical care. You call that a success.They agreed to live in separate areas, because they're guest workers, not citizens.If those conditions are so terrible, why did they agree to work under them?MistyBlue, on 14 January 2011 - 03:46 PM, said:These workers, many of them Chinese were tricked into going to The Marianas. They paid as much as $7,000, which is an enormous sum of money for them, for the promise of a job in America. Instead they were taken to a U.S. Territory, where the clothing made in those sweat shops bears a 'Made In USA' label. Some of them were even forced into prostitution and forced to have abortions if they became pregnant.They had no chance of ever saving up enough money to get out of that situation.Tom Delay was the person who was singularly responsible for blocking any legislation that would have helped these workers.And you support him in that.No legislation is necessary, so as usual, you're dishonestly smearing conservatives.No legislation was necessary to help workers that were forced into indentured servitude and prostitution and forced to have abortions.There's your free market capitalism at it's best, huh Puss?Avenger_of_Justice is not the liar, you are. Edited by MistyBlue, 16 April 2011 - 11:07 PM.