Is cheap stuff worth child labor?

americas corporations couldnt get around our labor laws so they bribed congress to remove tariffs and institute free trade.the rich couldnt put our children to work for pennies so theyve done it to other countries.its how you get an america with few jobs and an ever increasing divide between what the rich get and the rest of us.it was the cause of the great depression. Too much wealth held in the hands of too few

After a few American workers shot a few company senior managers in the face (Frick and Carnegie Steel immediately comes to mind), U.S. Corporation got their heads out of their a**es and behaved like responsible corporate citizens (a polite way to put it).

But always in the backs of the minds of these corporations is the undying need of the thug, for profits above all else, and at any cost, the cost in human beings basically. The company will kill the host country for profits. Now that Capitalism has become a moveable feast, all the old horrors are showing up again, this time in China and India and any foreign country where jobs formerly plentiful in the U.S. are now found.

The U.S. Corporations are still in the U.S., but their profits are declared here, taxes paid not at all, and the exploited foreign worker is left just exploited. Americans are not complacent about the sins of U.S. Corporation. It just gets really, really boring fixing the same problems over and over again because governments are just so freaking corrupt.

What I really like is how the Peoples Republic of China practically parodies the sins of Capitalism on a huge scale -- the pollution, the child labor, the employee slums, the smog, the meanial labor, the whole thing. The Chinese out Texas Texas. The Chinese governent hates their own people a hundred times worse than the U.S. government hated the American workforce.

Cultures are different and chances are these chinese children think this is just the way life is.

Does that make it right?

Never    

However, in China it is in the open.  In the United States it is underground.

There has never been an even playing field for manufacturing products. This country was built by manufactures that didn't have the restrictions that we have now....very expensive restrictions (including labor). So we go to a place that doesn't have these expenses(China) to do our grunt work for us. As it turns out they are hungry for what we have and will just take it (just ask Caterpillar about their tactics). They are using children because their best young men and women are in the armed forces which they are building at an alarming rate. (ask the Japanese their feelings on this)

We really need come together on this  because we don't have as many friends overseas as our government would have us believe.

   When the CEO of Disney made 600 million in salary and God knows what in bonuses, he had children working in Haiti for 12 cents an hour. This is the ungodly greed that is destroying America. Our big corporations are getting special treaties and tax breaks for robbing foreign labor.

   We will force real change or America will soon be in depression and chaos. Banks, insurance companies, wall street and the commodities all have much in common: They produce nothing and take mountains. Also, these pigs own our government, control our money supply, commodities prices, interest rates and damn near everything. 

Whenever I hear stories like this, which try  to strike a moral high tone about child labor in 3rd world countries, I find myself wondering if these self appointed moralists have hidden agendas or if they are just busy body fools.

I have been to some countries where child labor occurs and I can tell those who have not been to such places that, in most cases, despite how bad it is to be working in a sweat shop, the child is usually better off than most of the other local children who are often found searching for food at the dump or working the streets for whatever they can get, just to stay alive. 

These type stories show work places which seem to resemble small prisons which have barred windows and doors as well as guards. The viewers are given the impression that the workers are being held as "slave prisoners". While this is sometimes true, it is far more often true that the security measures are there to protect the workers from local criminals. The security is there to keep dangerous criminals out, not to keep the workers in.

I am not saying that sweat shop work is good for a child, but I am saying that, in my opinion, it is usually better than the available alternatives. As bad as this might sound, long hours, low wages and relative safety in a sweat shop is a better deal for these children than the long hours, no wages and no safety they would otherwise face on the streets.

In most cases, bringing (which usually means "bribing") local pressure to close a child employing sweat shop will not result in liberating the child into a better life. More than likely, it will do the opposite.

Yea, the "liberal do gooders" will jump up and down and say this is wrong....making their sociologist teacher proud of them.  Then spend 18 hours texting and facebooking about what they are having for dinner....if they don't walk into traffic.