[MAGI]

Sounds like this book would make a great documentary you could do up well.

;)

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=43550


Slavery Is Alive and Well in the U.S.

By Suzi Steffen, AlterNet. Posted October 8, 2007.



The new book Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy, goes after the U.S. companies that support slave labor.

What do you call it when those who cross the Mexican-U.S. border get charged thousands of dollars for a ride to a job where their employer makes them pay rent for unspeakably bad living conditions and board for the food they can only buy at the company store and where that employer patrols with dogs, trucks and thugs so the workers can't leave?

John Bowe calls it slavery. And it's happening in the United States right now, he says. Bowe's newest book, Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy, makes the case using three specific cases and geographical areas to show just how much workers in the U.S. get undermined and hurt by these practices.

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[FDRfollower]

Thanks Magi. Its a good idea and certainly is a worthwhile video to make. The two I made on Carey and Douglas address the issue, although from a long time ago, so people make the mistake that I'm giving a history lesson from some ancient place that has no relation to today. Folks reject (and i'm talking about people in government) any idea of adopting Franklin Roosevelts economic policies for the depression we have facing us on the pretext that "well, that was in the past", DUH! As FDR himself stated, he was just acting on the principle STATED in the constitution that government is MANDATED to act in the interest of the general welfare, not the "markets", and anyone at any time has the right to do so.

Also, there's the problem that due to those traitors Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, people have the false illusion that the British Empire is our wonderfull buddy and is some silly has-been relic that is just there to give us kindly encouragement, when their sole thought is to wreck our economy and destroy our military. (note the Rohatyn conference I mentioned before)

The issue of slave labor is a principle that comes with the British system (as a continuation of the old European oligarchical system going back to the Roman empire), as Carey pointed out in the 19th Century. The problem I see from the small amount of text you posted, is the misnomer "U.S. companies". George Shultz's Globalization has destroyed most remnants of what used to be the US economy.