The blog of a North Country Swede!

Friday, March 31, 2006

Can you hear me now?!

People working without the protection of fair labor standards and a say in the adoption of those standards is a form of slavery.



From Yahoo® News:
CONGRESS TACKLES LONG-RUN PROBLEM WITH SHORT-RUN SOLUTIONS

By Georgie Anne Geyer
Tuesday, March 28
"One of the best analysts of economics, Robert J. Samuelson, wrote this week in The Washington Post that the big corporations are having America 'import poverty' and lower wages so much that, of course, American workers 'won't take those jobs.' 'What we have now,' he wrote, 'and would with guest workers, is a conscious policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in Mexico. ... To be sure, some Americans get cheap housecleaning ... But if more mowed their own lawns or did their own laundry, it wouldn't be a tragedy.' "

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