In recent weeks the biggest controversy in the American public unfortunately isn't massacres in Libya or Palestine instead it is the HHS mandate of President Obama's healthcare plan. Bleeding-heart Christians make their argument for the freedom of religious beliefs in the first amendment. While their opposition site their freedom to as Rush Limbaugh, in his mass bigotry, would characterize "to be a slut".
In protest of this mandate, people from over 140 cities around the country with a strong female representation have taken to the streets to express their disapproval. The mainstream media has been all over coverage of this issue from all sides. Whether it be MSNBC and their predictable "pro-contraception liberal" spin or Fox News and their expected "anti-whore conservative" view; It's laughable to see Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and their male cronies make these grandiose proclamations against this issue regardless of the fact they themselves will never have to take birth control. But they need to make sure they don't pay the extra five cents out of their multimillion salaries for contraception. Meanwhile, in Israel we are sending billions in taxpayers' money to fight a war that we have no business in, and any reasonable person wouldn't want.
Of course the single group with probably the largest outrage at this issue are the people of the Roman Catholic faith. Myself being Catholic, I am subjected to weekly sermons (rants) of how we need to protect the "sanctity of life" how this issue goes against "God's will" and further fear-mongering of how this is the sign of "the fall of our great Nation". It is interesting though that they have never said much about corruption of children within the confines of our own religion. The Priest incites upheaval over the thought of our tax dollars going to pay for "murdering children", while certain churches collect thousands every mass that funds sexually abusing children. The hypocrisy within the Catholic churches and organized religions in general is quite staggering indeed.
To get a pulse on the viewpoints of fellow classmates I spoke with Ms. Natasha Wilson. In our conversation Natasha tried to shed light on what she believes are the motives for our President in the wake of this mandate. "I don't necessarily think President Obama intended to insult Catholic and other religious institutions with his proposal. One of Barack's key political platforms is nationalizing healthcare, and in doing so gives women their own choice and furthers his healthcare agenda."
Given the mass amount of media attention this particular mandate and issue in general receives; one thing that is for sure is that this debate will continue to rage on for the foreseeable future. But it is hard to see this issue as anything more than a distraction; we carry on with this inconsequential debate while Barack Obama signs executive orders like the National Defense Authorization Act. This legislation acts as a follow up to George Bush's "Patriot Act" and suspends the writ of Habeas Corpus for any "suspected terrorists". Or more recently his signing of the National Defense Resource Preparedness Order, which in effect gives him the power to declare Martial Law. But don't worry about that, gays are getting married, girls want the right to choose what they do with their body, a new episode of Jersey Shore is on tonight, Whitney Houston's autopsy just came out, and the Elite 8 starts tonight. These are just a few among the endless supply of distractions from the prison being built around us and the suspension of freedoms. But don't worry ours is the land of the free and home of the brave, where you are free...to do as we tell you!!!
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Should We Care About Foreign Workers?
What advantages are there to moving manufacturing to another nation, usually one that is poorer with large populations?
The obvious advantage of moving the manufacturing to foreign countries such as China is the cheap labor. But another aspect I think gets overlooked is the out-of-sight out-of-mind ideology that’s so prevalent in this country; this is the Not In My Back Yard mindset you have mentioned gone awry. Because these factories are half way around the world and are supplying us with our new messiah the iPhone, people praise and get all misty eyed over someone like Steve Jobs, especially since his passing, regaling with stories of how he was fired and saying he’s such a good example of what hard-work can get you in this country. Then he turns his back and uses people who work harder than he ever worked to become filthy stinking rich, and a good portion of those people he’s using are under 15 years old! Think of all the jobs he could have kept here if he was just willing to part with a few of his millions to pay an honest wage for an honest day worked. Oh but if these CEO’s did that however would they keep filling up their private jets, and what would become of their private island, those don’t just vacation on themselves.
What did you notice as to how these workers are treated?
It goes without saying that the way these people are treated and the thing demanded of them are appalling. Foxconn released a report saying that their suicide rates are lower than the average of
most occupations, but the last time I went to my dad’s office I didn’t see any nets around the buildings perimeter, I suspect a hint of embellishment on Foxconn “research data”. When asked about the working conditions and Foxconn’s treatment of their “workers” Steve Jobs responded “Foxconn is not a sweatshop; you go to this place and it’s a factory, but my gosh they got restaurants, movie theatres, hospitals, and swimming pools…for a factory it’s a pretty nice
factory.” What Mr. Jobs failed to mention is that they also have living arraignments, and the whole reason they provide all these things is because these indentured servants are never
intended to leave these facilities. They do not go home to their families they live like cattle, and these businesses stand for nothing but elitism and keeping the little people in their place which is
sickening.
Would American workers stand for this type of treatment? Be specific in your statement.
Simply put, no. Nor should we, with that said we shouldn’t stand for other people being subjected to this kind of treatment either, it spits in the face of human and workers’ rights. But that’s why these companies left the United States long ago, hah why would I pay for health benefits, pay into a 401K, give maternity leave, or any of these other perks to these little worker ants when I can line my pockets with that money. Besides here in America we don’t even want the jobs like building houses and picking fields, why would we want a job where we work 12-hour shifts at like $.86 an hour and at the end of the day go to allotted living quarter around people we don’t know and have no outside life, please we’re too occupied with trying to be the next American Idol or watching Joey Chestnut gobble down 70 hotdogs in 10 minutes while children all over the world starve.
If the USA is the standard to the world of decency, democracy, doing the right thing, should we stand by and accept that these types of conditions exist? Should we demand more from these corporations making billions of dollars on cheap labor? What are the negatives of American consumers demanding that our businesses reflect our values? Are we willing to literally "pay the price?"
Absolutely I believe we should, but the question I have is are we actually the standard of decency, democracy, blah blah blah or do we just like to say that when it’s convenient? When our “values” come between us and getting the latest form of electromagnetic pollution or technology as we usually call it, we have no problem looking the other way, but then someone calls us out on it we get all upset and patriotic and talk of our country’s superiority. How about we ask the people we bombed in Libya of American decency, we are fighting a “war on terror” by going in and terrorizing other people. The flag of hypocrisy reigns supreme for our country and truthfully most “1st world” countries like Britain, among others. The main negative for us actually living up to our word of being a “global leader of decency” is that the prices of our stuff would likely go up, which no one would be happy about. But our money is a farce, it is printed by the Federal reserve which is a privately owned for profit organization. It is not backed by gold or any precious metals it is literally worth what they tell us it is worth, and when they print this “money” they charge an interest rate it is a debt and is utterly worthless. But through their programming of us with their television, facebook, among other brainwashing technique we would run over our own mother for a ten dollar bill. Truly it’s pathetic; these elite at the top are having themselves a jolly-good laugh watching us worship their worthless green paper.
The obvious advantage of moving the manufacturing to foreign countries such as China is the cheap labor. But another aspect I think gets overlooked is the out-of-sight out-of-mind ideology that’s so prevalent in this country; this is the Not In My Back Yard mindset you have mentioned gone awry. Because these factories are half way around the world and are supplying us with our new messiah the iPhone, people praise and get all misty eyed over someone like Steve Jobs, especially since his passing, regaling with stories of how he was fired and saying he’s such a good example of what hard-work can get you in this country. Then he turns his back and uses people who work harder than he ever worked to become filthy stinking rich, and a good portion of those people he’s using are under 15 years old! Think of all the jobs he could have kept here if he was just willing to part with a few of his millions to pay an honest wage for an honest day worked. Oh but if these CEO’s did that however would they keep filling up their private jets, and what would become of their private island, those don’t just vacation on themselves.
What did you notice as to how these workers are treated?
It goes without saying that the way these people are treated and the thing demanded of them are appalling. Foxconn released a report saying that their suicide rates are lower than the average of
most occupations, but the last time I went to my dad’s office I didn’t see any nets around the buildings perimeter, I suspect a hint of embellishment on Foxconn “research data”. When asked about the working conditions and Foxconn’s treatment of their “workers” Steve Jobs responded “Foxconn is not a sweatshop; you go to this place and it’s a factory, but my gosh they got restaurants, movie theatres, hospitals, and swimming pools…for a factory it’s a pretty nice
factory.” What Mr. Jobs failed to mention is that they also have living arraignments, and the whole reason they provide all these things is because these indentured servants are never
intended to leave these facilities. They do not go home to their families they live like cattle, and these businesses stand for nothing but elitism and keeping the little people in their place which is
sickening.
Would American workers stand for this type of treatment? Be specific in your statement.
Simply put, no. Nor should we, with that said we shouldn’t stand for other people being subjected to this kind of treatment either, it spits in the face of human and workers’ rights. But that’s why these companies left the United States long ago, hah why would I pay for health benefits, pay into a 401K, give maternity leave, or any of these other perks to these little worker ants when I can line my pockets with that money. Besides here in America we don’t even want the jobs like building houses and picking fields, why would we want a job where we work 12-hour shifts at like $.86 an hour and at the end of the day go to allotted living quarter around people we don’t know and have no outside life, please we’re too occupied with trying to be the next American Idol or watching Joey Chestnut gobble down 70 hotdogs in 10 minutes while children all over the world starve.
If the USA is the standard to the world of decency, democracy, doing the right thing, should we stand by and accept that these types of conditions exist? Should we demand more from these corporations making billions of dollars on cheap labor? What are the negatives of American consumers demanding that our businesses reflect our values? Are we willing to literally "pay the price?"
Absolutely I believe we should, but the question I have is are we actually the standard of decency, democracy, blah blah blah or do we just like to say that when it’s convenient? When our “values” come between us and getting the latest form of electromagnetic pollution or technology as we usually call it, we have no problem looking the other way, but then someone calls us out on it we get all upset and patriotic and talk of our country’s superiority. How about we ask the people we bombed in Libya of American decency, we are fighting a “war on terror” by going in and terrorizing other people. The flag of hypocrisy reigns supreme for our country and truthfully most “1st world” countries like Britain, among others. The main negative for us actually living up to our word of being a “global leader of decency” is that the prices of our stuff would likely go up, which no one would be happy about. But our money is a farce, it is printed by the Federal reserve which is a privately owned for profit organization. It is not backed by gold or any precious metals it is literally worth what they tell us it is worth, and when they print this “money” they charge an interest rate it is a debt and is utterly worthless. But through their programming of us with their television, facebook, among other brainwashing technique we would run over our own mother for a ten dollar bill. Truly it’s pathetic; these elite at the top are having themselves a jolly-good laugh watching us worship their worthless green paper.
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