Romney's comments about desperate, grateful sweat-shop workers in China
In the "secret 47% tape", Romney recounted a visit to a Chinese sweat shop, and how there was a fence around it, not to keep the slave labor in, but to keep other people out!
He shares a fantasy with his wealthy supporters of workers so desperate for the lowest paying jobs that they have to build a fence to keep them out. This is obviously the fantasy of every corporation that is resentful of having to pay workers a (outrageous!) minimum wage - and that is angry and resentful about having to deal with any kind of organized labor.
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Here's the quote from the transcript:
Romney: "...but I was, when I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there, employed about 20,000 people, and they were almost all young women between the ages of about 18 and 22 or 23. They were saving for potentially becoming married, and they worked in these huge factories, they made various small appliances, and as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pittance they earned, living in dormitories with little bathrooms at the end with maybe ten rooms. And the rooms, they had 12 girls per room, three bunk beds on top of each other. You've seen them.
Audience member: Oh, yeah.
Romney: And around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire, and guard towers. And we said, "Gosh, I can't believe that you, you know, you keep these girls in." They said, "No, no, no—this is to keep other people from coming in. Because people want so badly to come work in this factory that we have to keep them out, or they'll just come in here and start working and try and get compensated.
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I can just see the "job creators" salavating over the prospect of American workers to be so desperate for work that they would force their way into a sweat-shop.
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