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Showing Original Post only (View all)Holy shit: Mitt Romney admits using Chinese slave labor @ Bain. [View all]
Mitt Romney admits using Chinese slave labor @ Bain.
by anneonymous670
Mitt Romney admits using Chinese slave labor @ Bain. 20,000 young girls. 12 girls per room. 120 girls per bathroom. Huge fences with guard towers.
"95% of life is set up for you if you were born in this country. And, I remember going to ah, uh, sorry just to bore you with stories.
When I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there. It 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 work in these huge factories, they made various uh, small appliances. And uh, as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pitance they earned, living in dormitories with uh, with little bathrooms at the end of maybe 10, 10 room, rooms. And the rooms they have 12 girls per room.
Three bunk beds on top of each other. You've seen, you've seen them? (Oh...yeah, yeah!) And, and, and around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire and guard towers. And, and, we said gosh! I can't believe that you, you know, 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 will just come in here and start working and, and try and get compensated. So we, this is to keep people out. And they said, actually Chinese New Year as the girls go home, sometimes they decide they've saved enough money and they don't come back to the factory.
And he said, so, on the weekend after Chinese New Year there will be a line of people hundreds long, outside the factory, hoping that some girls haven't come back. And they can come to the factory. And, and so as we were experiencing this for the first time, going to see a factory like this in China some years ago.
The Bain Partner I was with turned to me and said, you know, 95% of life is settled if you are born in America. This is uh, this is an amazing land and what we have is unique and fortunately it is so special we are sharing it with the world."
-Mitt Romney-
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/10/1129902/-Mitt-Romney-admits-using-Chinese-slave-labor-Bain
by anneonymous670
Mitt Romney admits using Chinese slave labor @ Bain. 20,000 young girls. 12 girls per room. 120 girls per bathroom. Huge fences with guard towers.
"95% of life is set up for you if you were born in this country. And, I remember going to ah, uh, sorry just to bore you with stories.
When I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there. It 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 work in these huge factories, they made various uh, small appliances. And uh, as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pitance they earned, living in dormitories with uh, with little bathrooms at the end of maybe 10, 10 room, rooms. And the rooms they have 12 girls per room.
Three bunk beds on top of each other. You've seen, you've seen them? (Oh...yeah, yeah!) And, and, and around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire and guard towers. And, and, we said gosh! I can't believe that you, you know, 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 will just come in here and start working and, and try and get compensated. So we, this is to keep people out. And they said, actually Chinese New Year as the girls go home, sometimes they decide they've saved enough money and they don't come back to the factory.
And he said, so, on the weekend after Chinese New Year there will be a line of people hundreds long, outside the factory, hoping that some girls haven't come back. And they can come to the factory. And, and so as we were experiencing this for the first time, going to see a factory like this in China some years ago.
The Bain Partner I was with turned to me and said, you know, 95% of life is settled if you are born in America. This is uh, this is an amazing land and what we have is unique and fortunately it is so special we are sharing it with the world."
-Mitt Romney-
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/10/1129902/-Mitt-Romney-admits-using-Chinese-slave-labor-Bain
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Horrible. However, I don't think enough people give a shit about conditions of workers in China or
Brickbat
Sep 2012
#2
He's right there. He's on the right, on a dais. He's standing up and speaking to the room
TalkingDog
Sep 2012
#35
He actually idealizes girls accepting mistreatment so they can get married. It's FEUDAL.
nolabear
Sep 2012
#19
It's Romney. Go to youtube and there are 10 videos on the channel,
Waiting For Everyman
Sep 2012
#22
Mitt Romney "There are 47% of people who feel entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing!"
roccr1985
Sep 2012
#31
Short of shooting a man in Reno just to see him die, Romney is capable of anything
MrScorpio
Sep 2012
#33
We still have no answers to what he was doing when he dressed as a state trooper.
Mnemosyne
Sep 2012
#47
Just to highlight a point, this is at odds with his claim he wasn't part of outsourcing decisions
JHB
Sep 2012
#37
Mitt worships the almighty dollar and everyone and everything else does not matter to him.
jillan
Sep 2012
#45
he sees it as helping them: "people want so badly to come work in this factory" we have to have
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#48