Modern Slavery alive and prosperous, Obozo's State Dept can't enforce our laws.

[Pete7469]

Supermarkets Sell Shrimp Peeled by Slaves: Report

I hold NBS to be less credible than WND, Al-CNN, MSLSD and Huffpo but this story seems to be legit. I like cheap seafood, but the idea that people are suffering against their will to produce it makes me sick. I have more research to do, but we will not buy seafood from questionable sources until we can confirm our federal government is doing it's job to make sure imported products meet certain standards.

The State Department has not slapped Thailand with sanctions applied to other countries with similarly weak human trafficking records because it is a strategically critical Southeast Asian ally. And federal authorities say they can't enforce U.S. laws that ban importing goods produced by forced labor, citing an exception for items consumers can't get from another source. Thai shrimp slips right through that loophole.

"Federal 'authorities' can't enforce U.S. laws".

So lets trust them to enforce immigration law.

 

[Moonglow]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, peeled shrimp......

 

[Kosh]

Political Slavery is still slavery unless you are far left..

 

[midcan5]

Ah come on righties, this is your god, your free market at work, enjoy the shrimp as you gaze at your iphone made by Chinese slaves protected by suicide nets. Outsourcing makes money for the conservative republican benefactors, in the future please sing praise to capitalism even if it is kinda exploitative and inhuman. It do make money folks. Get with it boys and girls. Soon you too can work for nothing. They say corporate slaves find happiness in their merger lives, you too can participate.

"The ruling class thinks that the average American earns too much money. This is an unspoken belief, and one that most of them would no doubt vehemently deny. But the evidence is compelling. The elite show their hand in many ways:

• When they oppose raising the pay of the lowest-paid workers, those covered by the minimum wage

• When they encourage the export of good-paying jobs in fields such as information technology

• When they resist changes in the tax code that would protect American workers

Corporate executives contend that they are forced to relocate their operations to low-wage havens to remain competitive. In other words, their domestic workers earn too much. Never mind that manufacturing wages are lower in the United Stares than in a dozen other developed countries.
Thanks to the rules, many of which are written by corporations, a company can pull up stakes and use cheap foreign labor to make the same product it once did in America. It no longer has to meet environmental standards. It no longer has to abide by U.S. labor laws. It no longer has to pay a decent wage. Then the company can ship the product back to the United States where, courtesy of the rules, it will pay little if any duty. How can American workers hope to compete against that? They can't.

Lisa Gentner worked at a company called Carrollton Specialty Products, housed in a one-story warehouse in Moberly, Missouri, a town of 15,000 in central Missouri. Carrollton was a subcontractor for Hallmark Cards, the global greeting card giant based 125 miles west in Kansas City, Missouri. The largely female workforce of 200 provided the hand assembly for a variety of Hallmark products. They tied bows and affixed them to valentines and anniversary greetings. They glued buttons, rhinestones, and pop-ups inside birthday cards. They made gift baskets.

As in many towns across the country, the plant was an economic anchor for Moberly. Manufacturing is often pictured as a big-city enterprise, but a substantial number of plants are the lifeblood of small to medium-sized cities...."

Quote from p24 'Assault on the Middle Class' in 'The Betrayal of the American Dream' authors, Barlett and Steele.