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Oct. 16th, 2006 08:25 pm
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So the Chinese Government has decided that unions might be a good idea, what with all that industrialization going on, and pretty much a complete lack of safety measures. And who is lobbying against such (fairly basic) protections for workers. Foreign corporations, of course. Including Dell, Ford, General Electric, Microsoft and Nike, as represented by the American Chamber of Commerce.

I get depressed when I realize that the Chinese government cares more about people than American corporations do.

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Date: 2006-10-17 10:46 pm (UTC)
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Er, wasn't that the whole point of Communism? And wasn't the point of wiping out the Communist party in the U.S. to roll back the clock on workers' rights? I know, I know, they said it was to protect us from the Red Menace, but seriously, you don't really believe that, do you?

No government is perfect. But for all that China's government has major faults, it has virtues too, and by all reports, things are getting better in China, not worse. In a decade, we may well envy the people of China. More's the pity.

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