On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:04:00 GMT "Jay Honeck" wrote:

I think you don't know what some US corporations are doing in other
"emerging" countries.

Enlighten us, please.


Well that might be a tall order. But if you are really interested in
becoming enlightned I would suggest that you seek out the stories yourself.
You know, why take my word for it?

Here's a start:

Union Carbide 100,000 people died from that catastrophe

Parents in India selling their children off to work in sweatshops
(there's no real shop to speak of, more like a hovel.) making cheap goods
for the "civilized" world.

The tropical hardwoods showing up in all manner of home furnishings are
coming from clear cutting that would make even the most hardened lumber
baron gasp.

It's all there if you really want to know. Heck Nat. Geographic had a story
recently from corners of the globe about exploit and indentured servitude
not just as local social problems but as a result of trying to keep the
price of goods absurdly low to undercut the country going even lower.

Those $5 picture frames will have a long term cost that cannot be paid back.


R. Hubbell

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