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   capndunzzl said, 6 months ago

   …wal mart might take it back.
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   Radish said, 6 months ago

   Pakistan’s Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
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   ConserveGov said, 6 months ago

   They do start smoking young.
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   omQ R said, 6 months ago

   @ConserveGov

   ConserveGov said‘They do start smoking young.’
   With that wise-crack I hope you were unaware of the fire in the garment factory in Bagladesh that killed 112. It had Walmart, Sears & Disney as customers, hence the cartoon.
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   olfart said, 6 months ago

   No fire exits, no alarms, no oversight. That’s what the plutocrats want for American workers.
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   Sr NONliberal said, 6 months ago

   @olfart

   No we don’t. Fear mongering is so cliche coming from both extremes.
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   cdward said, 6 months ago

   @Sr NONliberal

   Of course it’s true. If it weren’t, you all (since you self-identify as a plutocrat) would not have outsourced all those jobs to places where you can abuse employees so badly. Slave wages, no regulation, poor quality – that’s what it was like here before labor organized, and once outsourcing became practical, that’s what plutocrats went back to. Seems to be in your DNA.
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   AshburnStadium said, 6 months ago

   @olfart

   And that would take us back to the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, as mentioned by Radish. Back on Saturday, March 25, 1911, that company, which was also a textile mill, caught fire.
   Management had locked the exits and stairwells to keep the employees at their jobs as well as to prevent pilferage.
   146 people died and 72 were injured, some as they jumped out of windows on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors. The oldest person to die was 48 while the youngest was only ELEVEN years old! Most were immigrant Jewish and Italian women, ages 16-22.
   As olfart said, our plutocrats want to take us back to those days where there are no protections for workers and that children would be laboring as well in these sweatshops.
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   narrowminded said, 6 months ago

   What? People working? Where? This is unacceptable, these people should have been home living off the Govn. We need to get some progressives over there quick.
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    Respectful Troll said, 6 months ago

    A few years ago, in the spirit of “Thank You for Smoking”, a man representing an overseas clothing maker said, “Yes, they are working for substandard wages, but because they are working for us, they are being underpaid less than they would if they worked for another company.”
    The lobbyists probably made over 200k a year to convince people that we’re doing workers in sweatshops a favor, but the CEOs and managers are making very good money, even tho they are making nothing, they just keep the poorly paid productive.
    This is not an American value.
    Respectfully,
    C.
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    masterskrain said, 6 months ago

    I just wonder what a lot of these big retailers would do if people actually stopped buying cheap imported clothing, and took the time to search out American Made clothes?
    If you can find any, that is…
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    Michael wme said, 6 months ago

    If the US would allow factories like Triangle Shirtwaist to operate in the US, there would be no reason to export jobs to Bangladesh. We must get rid of all those regulations that are stifling business. And the only way to make sure the workers work is to lock the factory up, as they always do in Bangladesh, which is why Walmart prefers to have its clothes made there, and why Americans prefer Bangladeshi clothes to American-made ones.
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    lonecat said, 6 months ago

    @Radish

    Radish, thanks for the reference. An important history lesson.
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    lonecat said, 6 months ago

    @Michael wme

    And Michael, thanks as usual for pointing out the underlying thinking.
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    Omnius said, 6 months ago

    Sure is disgusting we can’t buy clothes made in the USA because the republicans made sure to outsource our clothing industry overseas. Thanks Mitt the Twit for profiting by outsourcing jobs to China and India, maybe you could go back to Bain capital and get tough with their job outsourcing.
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