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To: RealMuLan who wrote (5966)	6/16/2006 10:40:54 AM
From: hui zhou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6370

Well said. Now US companies find a new cheap place named Vietnam and start to set up there now. They are so good at playing one poor country against the other one to keep them rich. G8, World Bank, IMF meeting attract a lot of protesters. South American countries got fed up and kick the IMF out. Things are better of afterwards.

To: RealMuLan who wrote (5966)	6/16/2006 5:22:28 PM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6370

"it has NO choice but using slave labor" The implication of using slave labor is that the laborers can not leave their positions. Do you evidence that this is the case? If this is the case then why does not China not enforce laws (or pass laws if they do not exist..) to stop these practices? The US has had the 8 hour workday for more than 70 years and child labor laws for even longer yet it has still prospered. By the way my father did a study of US companies in Latin America about 20 years ago. Interestingly enough the US companies were much more likely to meet or exceed labor laws than the locally owned and operated companies.

To: RealMuLan who wrote (5966)	7/5/2006 10:49:41 PM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6370

"the point is, in order for AAPL to get that kind of HIGH profit margin, it has NO choice but using slave labor!! There is NO free lunch on this planet, decent wage and working environment cost money! Someone got to pay!" One US Athletic Shoe Manufacturer, New Balance still employs 70% of their factory staff within the US. (The balance they stated in another article is in Europe or Asia, predominantly shoes made outside the US are for markets outside the US: newbalance.com (Look towards the bottom under facilities..) They are profitable yet privately owned. (And don't have Nike town..) Average wages are $12 an hour, which in small town American is tolerable. Even in high wage and highly regulated North America a company can make a profit against the likes of Nike which uses Chinese. Vietnamese, and Indonesian labor at a fraction of the wages of North American labor. (To say nothing of the factory conditions..) No Nike town but paying living wages and adhering to US safety regulations.