It Was Over Romney Profiting from Slave Labor
Prouty didn't shoot the video because he wanted the goods on Romney. He was just making a souvenir, like his pictures of Bill Clinton shaking hands with the staff at another event. It was only when Romney talked about going to China to buy a factory "back in my private equity days" that he knew he had something explosive on his hands.
Romney told the room that the factory employed 20,000 young women in their teens and twenties, living 12 to a room in triple bunk beds, 10 rooms sharing one little bathroom, working long hours for a "pittance." The factory was surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. "And we said gosh, I can't believe that you, you know, keep these girls in. And they said, no, no, no. This is to keep other people from coming in. Because people want so badly to work in this factory that we have to keep them out."
What galled Prouty was that Romney bought the lie. He told the story not to condemn slave labor, but to say how lucky American are to be born in a land of so much opportunity that we don't have to stop people from scaling walls to get work.
Looking around the room, Prouty saw that none of the guests were appalled. He thought it wrong that only people with $50k to s out could see the real Romney. Afterward, searching online, he learned that the factory was Global-Tech in Donguan, and that Charles Kernaghan, an international labor rights activist, had exposed Bain's interest in ventures built on outsourced American jobs and exploited workers. Two weeks later, when Prouty decided he'd be a coward if he kept what he'd seen to himself, it was this story alone that motivated him to go public. China, not the 47 percent, was his lede.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15200...om-slave-labor
Prouty is a ing hero.
Is Prouty an expert on on the Chinese culture?
If he's not, so what?
Do you buy the Chinese lie like Bishop Gecko did?
Maybe Willard didn't pick up on the Chinese sarcasm. He's that dense.
This casts a bad light on someone on the political right; there must be some broader context to show that it's dubious at best.
Who is he to judge the truth if he isn't an expert on Chinese culture? I can believe that the living conditions were as said, and that the women were glad to have those jobs. I work with an immigrant from China and have heard stories. Have you?
My God... You liberals talk about US poverty and have no idea what real poverty is.
Classic GOP logic....
A classical-liberal cons utionalist = unelectable
A wannabe slaveowner and known sweatshop operator who openly hates 47% of the American electorate = totally electable, must be nominated at all costs
And the GOP is going to make the same mistakes again next election cycle, since they're convinced they lost because of "branding" instead of continually nominating bag ivory-tower warmongering neocons
lol culture
While we can all debate the morality of these chinese sweatshops it is common and well do ented knowledge that hundreds of millions of chinese voluntarily gave up their subsistence agrarian existence and flooded the cities anxious to take these ty jobs because it was less ty than the life they had before.
Like I said, liberals here in America have no concept of what poverty really is.
so you believe the concentration camp security was to keep people out, not in?
Apparently, Willard doesn't know what it is either, otherwise he'd have done something to help the poor instead of ing profiting from slave labor....
Truth mf out, where the informed get their news.
Chinese women want to work in prisons.
It's their culture!
Do you know anything about the Chinese culture? I work with a chinese guy who says....
Smart people wouldn't work with Chinese people....
The smart ones who understand their culture enslave them.
At least he knew it was Prouty. Your uninformed ass said it was Jimmy Carter's grandson who, in actualiy, was David Corn's research assistant Proudy used to contact Corn.
Am I wrong about you? I thought you were smarter than that statement just shown you to be.
Does Romney even have enough money to give $1 to each Chinese citizen in poverty? Isn't his net worth south of $250 million?
I have no idea of the situation on this particular factory, but it is quite common worldwide for factories to have perimeter fencing/security and limited points of entrance/exit for security and inventory control. It's not like they want the peasants wandering out the side door with boxes full of i5's.
So...
You ass-ume it's a prison. I can believe the security is to keep others from coming in. Do you dismiss that idea out of hand, or do you have facts we don't know of?
LOL...
That too...
My new next door neighbor has her parents living with her. They are from China.
Does that make me an expert on their culture? I helped the old guy work on the lawn this past weekend.. that has got to count for something..
Yeah, people break into places to work all the time. I guess if they all look alike to you, you might pay the wrong worker.
I lock my doors at home so my Chinese neighbors don't break in and steam clean my carpet.
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