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How do you compete with .23 cents an hour? China can't even compete with that.
This turns 'Made in America' on it's head. Prisons contract with private company's, and the Dept of Defense. Prisoners are making everything from body armour, bullet proof vests, night vision goggles, riot helmets, to plastic forks and cups and Braille books for the blind.
Listen to this interview of Mike Elk, Labor Journalist. This labor pool provides incentives to keep illegals coming, and expand the prison population. The interviewer attempts to put a positive spin on this story.
If it lowers defense costs, then I approve with reservations. Hopefully this doesn't compromise quality which, considering what is being made, would be very bad.
[sometimes with low cost labor you get low quality product]
It just amazes me that more people don't seem to care about this issue. Prisoners are employed, thereby making it easier to not hire you or compete in the free market.
Another factor is buying 250 billion dollars worth of imports from China, who uses forced prison labor.
The bottom line is that western countries place a higher value on cheap goods than human life. So I don't want to hear anyone complaining about slavery in the past, and not including our current support of it to this very day. Supposedly, slavery is against the law in all countries, but that is a farce and we all know it.
Now back to the important issues of bashing Christians for offending gays, pedophiles and trannies.
It just amazes me that more people don't seem to care about this issue. Prisoners are employed, thereby making it easier to not hire you or compete in the free market.
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And were the choice $15 an hour labor costing employers $22-25 hour with benefits, guess what..robots would make these products.
In reality, prisoners are not taking other Americans' jobs. They are taking robots' jobs.
At $.23 per hour, the investment of the robot can't compete. At $25, the robot wins.
More incentive for the gov to lock us up.
Who says slavery is dead?
Exactly! The hottest investment have got to be Federal Prison Industries, Correction Corporation of America, and UNICORP. I wonder how much stock Obama owns.
It just amazes me that more people don't seem to care about this issue. Prisoners are employed, thereby making it easier to not hire you or compete in the free market.
Another factor is buying 250 billion dollars worth of imports from China, who uses forced prison labor.
The bottom line is that western countries place a higher value on cheap goods than human life. So I don't want to hear anyone complaining about slavery in the past, and not including our current support of it to this very day. Supposedly, slavery is against the law in all countries, but that is a farce and we all know it.
Now back to the important issues of bashing Christians for offending gays, pedophiles and trannies.
I can't really complain.
*turns computer mouse over and sees Made in China*
[turn your's over and tell me where it was made]
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