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Old January 15th, 2004, 10:05 PM

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Default Re: OT Do you care were the products you buy are made

[quote]Originally posted by gregebowman:
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It doesn't help when American companies have these unions who are demanding sky-high wages, and won't back down. No wonder a lot of American products costs so much; they have to provide the money for those wages. I for one don't believe we no longer need unions. Between federal laws and OSHA, all of the original concerns 100 years ago that forced unions to be created no longer exist. I believe unions are now just an extenion of organized crime, and only exist now to finance the mob. We get rid of the unions, maybe increase our minimum wage rate by a $1.00 or so, and maybe American prices will come down so they can be competitive to foreign products.
Actually it's not that American products cost too much it's that Chinese goods et.al are allowed to get away with working conditions and practices that I am sure most or you would not want for this country.

I would imagine most U.S. citizens wouldn't work in the conditions that Chinese workers et. al. are forced to work in.

Chinese companies are allowed to dumb raw toxic waste into their rivers and pollute their air - I would challenge anyone who claims there are too many regulations to go to Beijing and then claim they would want to live in that Toxic wasteland.

I am not sure what you mean by "sky-high" union wages. But I do know that most equivalent non union workers get paid the $5.00/hour minimum wage with no health benefits. And those federal laws mentioned are being eroded or simply not enforced by the current administration.

[ January 15, 2004, 20:18: Message edited by: rextorres ]
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