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To: epicure who wrote (3953)	1/30/2001 12:41:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I have a personal concern for US workers, I have a general humanitarian concern for offshore workers. The two issues are related- because companies that don't want to abide by environmental regulations, that don't want to provide safe working conditions, that don't want to pay a living US wage- go elsewhere. They not only take jobs from the US that our uneducated citizens could have, they go and poison other countries environments, they go and exploit labor in other countries, they do whatever they can to maximize profits- morality has nothing to do with it. I agree that morality has little or nothing to do with it, however Americans not buying goods from workers who work in poor conditions for very little pay will not make the conditions and pay better for most of them. It will instead mean that most of them either have no jobs, or work in even worse conditions for even less pay to provide goods and services for the local market only. Are American companies exploiting workers in Asia? That would depend on exactly what you mean by exploit, but the jobs they provide make things better for their employees not worse. Tim

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