Two Reasons Why No Jobs.

       Do ya know why millions of jobs won't be coming back to America, ever? There were two articles in the New York Times today that explains it very well. One is about Wal-Mart Mexico and it's brand of bribery. The other is about the factory fire in Bangladesh that killed so many workers because doors were locked and management wouldn't allow people to leave the building.
       First Wal-Mart. It has been using bribes to get its way and now the proof is in. Just $52,000 in one case allowed an official zoning map to be changed just before its publication, thus allowing a Wal-Mart store where nobody wanted it. But that's just one example of the dozens the Times has uncovered. And if the Times found that many, how many others weren't found.
       Then the fire in Bangladesh in the factory owned by a Mr. Hossain. No outside fire escape, no sprinkler system, locked doors and workers staging protests over non-payment of wages. The workers were inside at the time because they had to work double shifts to meet orders for multiply international brands of clothing.
       So on the one hand you have THE giant retailer showing its power to get its way, no matter what. Including from government officials and corporate suppliers. And on the other hand you have the suppliers demanding the lowest possible price for product from the factory irregardless of what it might take to meet those demands and, of course, taking no responsibility for any consequences. It was somebody else who did it, not us, certainly not us.
       They know they would never get away with such flagrant disregard for the rules in America. We have laws that will not allow such nonsense. And the question begs, do we even want such jobs? Do we want to go back to the 18th century, where human lives were considered to be of no value in industry except to produce? Where a worker who demanded fair treatment might well be considered a terrorist for just asking.
       It's easy to knock unions, and some deserve to be knocked, but without them, we regress. Given enough time, the laws we have to protect workers, and without unions, will disappear, one by one. The anti-union movement is taking us back to a future we won't like.