I was thinking how poorly made and unattractive new clothes are, and

[crunch60]

they are made by SLAVE LABOR! I am not a Walmart shopper..but sometimes late at night, I run out of glue and run to the local 24hr Walmart to pick up a tube.

When I walk by the clothing area I have a image in my mind, of thousands of Chinese workers, working 18 hours a day, (mandatory overtime) making maybe .15 to .30 cents an hour, at times not getting paid at all.

In this PBS video, a young girl, with clothes pins on the eyelids to keep them open, struggles to make a few dollars to help her family.

Everyone, especially kids, should watch this video. Perhaps they would think twice about the clothes they put on their back, the importance of buying "Made in America".
This is a peek into where the Romney/Ryan budget could take us, all a part of union busting, right to work law.


PBS: CHINA BLUE VIDEO-

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/

I posted this the first time on the wrong thread, so I'm posting it again here.

[wandy]

1. Welcom to the Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan wet dream.

15 cents an hour. Make America competive again.

[truedelphi]

6. Huh? This started under President Clinton.

And I sure wish someone would explain to me how we have had supposedly two distinct major political parties for past thirty years, and despite whichever party in in its ascendent, we still have endless wars, enacted by both parties. And: Endless outsourcing of of jobs.

And the one bright spot in the recovery here in California was the medical marijuana clinics, which Obama and his DOJ put the cabaoosh on. So the state will lose an additional 245 millions of revenue directly, with who knows how many more millions indirectly.

What is needed: We really need to reform the two major parties, and put them back into the framework where they existed during the the fifties - when both parties looked out for middle class Americans, and not the modern politicians real constituents, "Big Corporations."

[mother earth]

2. The corporate push & sell off of democracy has been & always will be about modern slavery.

Outsourcing goes where labor laws do not.

It's time to wake up and realize that humanity's labor is worthy of equality.
When third world laborers are expendable, so are we. If China spews toxins into the atmosphere with no regard, we too breathe it in.

Japan's Fukushima will have a palpable effect we have yet to realize and understand.

Hate to go biblical, because I am soooo not inclined, but what happens to the least of our brethren happens to us all.
Planet earth is one, in sickness or in health, our choice.

[pansypoo53219]

3. i buy mostly 2nd hand clothes or closeout from land's end. most of there stuff is central/south amer

or keep wearing old stuff. i wear my grandpas + uncles old clothes.

[shcrane71]

4. It's become almost impossible to find 100% cotton jeans.

Ones that aren't exorbitantly priced that is. I think American Apparel uses US labor for their clothes, but you have to be a size 0.

[spooky3]

5. LL Bean still sells them.

But they aren't made in the US.

[HopeHoops]

7. My three daughters love 2nd hand stores - one in particular puts nothing to waste.

Donated items only stay on the rack for 30 days and then are shipped to Africa to be sold in 2nd hand stores there. What's deemed unfit for sale is shredded to make bedding and insulation. It's also a great place to find something "different" from what's in all of the department stores - both in style and quality. They've gotten some amazing outfits for a small fraction of what similar clothing would cost in a big box store.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Pick timeless fashion

There are some things that never go out of style.

(Then again, I was going through my closet and found a T-shirt with Spuds McKenzie)