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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeck, when you describe slavery like THAT it sounds great!
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)as well as incarcerated folks since pretty much day 1 of the Trump Admin ... BUT ... it's not being marketed to foreign companies, it's being marketed to American companies.
That's what "establish/REshore/expand operations Stateside" with "offshore cost savings" means. I.E., "US Companies, don't move to China (or come back from there), and use Cheap Federal Slave Labor here instead, for about the same price".
I mean, they MAY be marketing to foreign companies as well, but that's not what this blurb is saying.
Also ... DoJ 'corporation'? That in itself is a highly disturbing concept.
It's overall sickening, no question.
If this catches on, you can bet we'll have us some Federal Debtors Prisons pretty damn soon.
sprinkleeninow
(20,248 posts)corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)To think, with his American Jobs Act, President Obama proposed a Public/Private partnership to rebuild our nation's infrastructure with union jobs.
msongs
(67,405 posts)MasonDreams
(756 posts)Open up, oh yes very nice! 4 teeth with gold in this this one!
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)not merely that there are many in the states of the "old South" that would gladly have slavery back, but that many in the north would gladly expand the operation. Who knows what besides the obvious is happening?
corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)As horrific as this advertisement is, things are worse on the chain gangs of Florida. As state policy, we compel prisoners to work and, should they refuse, they are tossed in solitary, denied medical care, or worse.
While we're on the subject, it is an open secret that most tomatoes harvested in Florida are picked by slaves, yes, actual slaves, earning $1 a day if they're lucky. Many aren't paid at all, if you can call $1 a paycheck.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Slaves have frequently been paid throughout history. Slavery is about not being allowed to quit.