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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 08:25 PM
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Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes is a neoliberal shill
Edited on Thu Jan-15-09 08:29 PM by brentspeak
His latest column, entitled http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html">"Where sweatshops are a dream", argues that we shouldn't attach labor standards to trade agreements because the capitalists who like to set up shop in the least-regulated, lowest wage countries might then move their factories to other, slightly better-off unregulated, low-wage countries.

Kristof's 'either-or' argument? It's better to be exploited by a sweatshop, making pennies a day in unsafe conditions, than it is to be sifting through a pile of refuse. The enemy, according to Kristof, are the anti-sweatshop activists and Obama's proposed policies.

So those are the only two choices Kristof can think of? A sweatshop or no sweatshop? Isn't that the classic manifesto that anti-union "free market" jerks have always used - you either accept your job the way it is - low wages, little safety, etc. - or we'll move someplace else and you won't have a job?

Has this latte liberal ever heard of the concept that rather than the vast majority run against one another to the bottom, maybe, just maybe, CEOs and top management should take a pay cut?

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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 09:08 PM
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1. Kristof is one of the few people whose motives in writing a story like this I would not question
His column has been putting faces on, and bringing home the horrible plights of, too many people in poverty-stricken, dangerous (especially for women) parts of the world that he's traveled to and spent more time in than I could ever imagine doing.
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