I found the following CNN-Reuters article posted by Robert Oak at the "NOSLAVES.COM" site. This article describes how multinational corporations are essentially promoting SLAVERY in underdeveloped countries. It begins as follows:
"12 million in forced labor - U.N.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 Posted: 1358 GMT (2158 HKT)
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Globalization and the demand for cheap labor have helped force at least 12.3 million people into slave-like work worldwide and create a multi-billion-dollar human trafficking industry, a U.N. agency said on Wednesday.
The United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO) said the vast majority of them were in Asia and Latin America, many working in agriculture or imprisoned in camps.
Children are the hardest hit, comprising 40-50 percent of those in forced labor, it said in a report..."
The link for this is:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/11/labour.forced.reut/
Is this how our economy is growing? By the use of child labor and slaves? U.S. multinationals should take great pride in their ability to exploit the worst global labor conditions to improve their bottom line. But ultimately, who will they sell their products to when we all live like slaves? Did American slaves ever buy goods? Did they create a market? What markets are we going to open up? Foreign slaves will never buy our products. Americans won't either, if they sink to this level.
I recommend sending this article to as many people as possible, including congressional and senatorial representatives. It's probably a waste of time to send it to the Great Prevaricator, since he never reads the paper. (Or anything else, for that matter. Maybe one of his staff can read it to him.)
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Investment does NOT create jobs. It only "allows" for their creation. Increased Demand for goods creates jobs, because it necessitates hiring of workers to produce more goods. Investment "permits" job growth. Demand necessitates it.
Building a factory does NOT create jobs. Demand for production DOES create jobs. Goods are not produced if there is no demand for them. Without demand for goods, there is no demand for workers to produce them. Without demand, no amount of investment creates jobs.