My son was overseas, near Korea, Japan and such, what we consider very, very low wages, is not actually that low to the people that live there. In other words, if someplace in this world the rate of pay is $1000 a day but our rate of pay is only $100 a day, it would seem to the $1000 a day people that we are slave labor. I don't think the real reason American companies go to other countries to have their products made is just for one reason, there are matters like laws, taxes and unions, that push up their production costs also. A lot less pain to go somewhere else, in other words, it's our own fault we have lost these jobs to overseas workers. It's just my opinion.
Sue
Buy products "Made in the USA"
Discussion in '2000-02 Archive' started by Acts 1:8, Dec 10, 2002.
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"The U.S.-based clothing manufacturers and retailers that have contracts with discriminatory maquilas include Target, The Limited, Wal-Mart , GEAR for Sports, Liz Claiborne and Lee Jeans. All of these have codes of conduct or terms of engagement that prohibit discrimination. GEAR for Sports and Lee Jeans specifically prohibit pregnancy testing."
Taken from here.
Gina -
DHK -
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KABOOOOOOOM!
Mum told me not to play with matches!!!!!
Cheers,
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We produce a lot of gas and oil in Wyoming, but it is cheaper to pump in in Venezuela, put it in tankers, refine it in Galveston and pump it back to the West.
Worried about supporting S Korea by buying a Hyundai Sonata a few years back. But worse than that . . . it came from TORONTO.
That's right. Made in Canada.
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Why not over-tax iports and give a break on exports?
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CONSUMERS are the ones that determine the supply, demand, price, and overall direction of any marketplace.</font>[/QUOTE]This still doesn't make it so. We know...we were in the intimate apparell industry for many years, and the FTC may say one thing, but it sure doesn't enforce it very well. Now our jobs are in Mexico.
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Interestingly, although the US is the forefront of technology, the only hybrid vehicles in mass production are the Honda Insight, the Honda Civic, and the Toyota Prius.
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In America things are never simple. There are government, tax, politics considerations in every decision. Look how long it took the tobacco industry to do the right thing. Lobbyist...their interests...there's allot to consider in areas that we may not even be partially aware of as to why America doesn't make Hybrid cars....yet.
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