Inside China's SLAVE labor toy factories

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With prices of basic food rising so fast, every country will have people going hungry. At the extreme end, I can foresee this biofuel thing is going to claim a lot of lives in poor African and Asian countries.

[Cal]

I dont see a problem.

"No big deal, they recover quickly". Hahaha, I love it. I do not see a problem with this factory. The Chinese at least know how to treat their peons. After employing lazy, overpaid, shiftless, mentally ill staff for years, losing money, embezzlement, etc I could not agree more with this Factory's approach. Maybe the leftist ignorant spoiled interviewer should open a business and hire people, then after 10 years of this then conduct interviews in China. These interviewers simply need to grow up.

Another point, no one is making these woman drive 1000+ miles to a dorm to work, then NEED the work and this is the best then can get.

[GRG55]

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I know I am being a bit naughty quoting my previous post but this has just surfaced in the Washington Post.

Cupboards Are Bare at Food Banks

Drops in Donations and Farm Surplus Cause Area Charities to Run Short


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...src=newsletter

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that the US is a very successful nation at all levels, when, the truth is, it is not at all good at successfully driving forward with the distribution of its equity capital re-invested back into new productive capacity. Ergo, you have a very large raft of poor people who starve for want of a regular, reasonable paid job to support themselves and their families.

You can turn away and say, it is nothing to do with ....who? But not in any sort of a civilised society where the whole nation is led by individuals that recognise their responsibilities to those less fortunate than they are.

Chris: Understand your passion about this situation, and one cannot argue that a society that has binged on credit will go through some wrenching adjustments now that "drug" is being withdrawn.

But the USA has a few things in its favour that we should not overlook:

• US unemployment is 4.7%, and even if we don't believe the govt. stats, I think we can be quite certain it is still below rates of unemployment in large parts of Europe. Police are getting shot in the banlieues of France, where the Economist magazine this week estimated unemployment as high as 40%. I'll refrain from any comment about civilized societies...
• The US has better labour mobility and fewer barriers to employment than most other places. It's not as good as it used to be, before terrorism made the whole place paranoid (crossing the Canadian border into the US at Sweetgrass, Montana this summer was surreal) but matching people and employment opportunity is still more efficient there than in Europe or most other places.
• Farm subsidies aside (that's an issue not unique to the USA), America has one of the most productive agricultural sectors, and supplies food to its population at prices that are lower than almost anywhere else on earth. We won't mention the "obesity epidemic"; you get the point I'm sure.
• Because they don't depend on government programs to the degree that Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, etc. have become accustomed, Americans have a greater tendency to look to family and community resources in times of need. The degree to which this occurs might surprise those who've grown up in more "socialist" societies.

Although there are likely difficult times ahead for some parts of the US economy, I am absolutely certain that America will emerge from this latest crisis as a formidable competitor, yet again. People wrote off America during the difficult days of the 1970's and they came back. People declared Japan "The Winner" over the US at the end of the 1980's - look what happened next.

Any group of people that are so creative they can sell near-worthless paper to the rest of the world, including north of the Arctic Circle, is not to be underestimated or treated cavalierly. ;)

[Guest]

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A ringing endorsement of America's resilience from one of our Canadian cousins. Thanks GRG55! Not for nothing did we emerge as a nation through the "natural selection process" chronicled by Mark Twain's classic Riverboat Gambler and Snake Oil Salesman! We have these forebears in our blood!

Seriously, thanks very much for that GRG55. As I'm now familiar with your tendency to shrewd and unsentimental evaluation, even this little whisper of hope for what we may still become "after the troubles" is heartening.

Although there are likely difficult times ahead for some parts of the US economy, I am absolutely certain that America will emerge from this latest crisis as a formidable competitor, yet again. ... Any group of people that are so creative they can sell near-worthless paper to the rest of the world, including north of the Arctic Circle, is not to be underestimated or treated cavalierly. ;)

[ Hello GRG55? Hello? Helloow? Oh hell, the long-distance telephone connection must have gone down. ]

[Guest]

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Cal -

With an "Ambassador for America" like you, who needs the State Department! "Condi, take a long vacation! We've got Cal covering your desk just fine!". :rolleyes:


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You can get more for laughs here -
http://engrish.com/

Cal -

With an "Ambassador for America" like you, who needs the State Department! "Condi, take a long vacation! We've got Cal covering your desk just fine!". :rolleyes:


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[LargoWinch]

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astonishing.

[Nervous Drake]

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[LargoWinch]

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This video provides a terrible back drop to what is going on right now. A default on this debt would lead to 1.3 billion angry Chinese people.

The illusion of American living was created through their hard work and toil. One quality that is impossible to fight within ourselves is the total disregard for reciprocation.

In other words, there is no free lunch. The Chinese know this and are playing the principle as hard as possible.

The question is: how much longer are they willing to play dumb?