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Cheap Labor Conservatives Love Iraq

by krankyman Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003 at 1:28 PM

As they say the proof is in the pudding. Have a taste cheap labor conservatives. Enjoy your American Style Freedom Iraq. Freedom from jobs.





Six in Ten Iraqis Unemployed, but U. S. Subcontractors Hire Cheap Migrant Laborers



Even though seven million Iraqis are unemployed1, U.S. sub-contractors are rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with cheap migrant labor from South Asia.2 The use of Asian laborers is at odds with President Bush's emphasis on the importance of Iraqis taking on the job themselves.

Bush has said the key to "rebuilding a democratic and prosperous Iraq is the Iraqi people themselves."3 Paul Bremer, the Bush appointee overseeing post-war Iraq, likewise has talked of the need to turn around the country's 60 percent unemployment rate and "to fix a very sick economy."4

However, the head of the Iraqi Jobless Association, Kasem Hadi, is critical of the Bush Administration's lack of progress. "Following four rounds of talks with [Bremer's] representatives, we made no progress regarding the unemployment crisis,"5 Hadi says.

Meanwhile, U.S. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, one of Bremer's colleagues, has raised questions about the reliability of foreign workers. "You find [them] in out-of-the-way corners taking 15 minute naps," she notes.6

At the same time, officials of the Iraqi Governing Council are concerned that large American contractors, including Halliburton and Bechtel, may be inflating the cost of the reconstruction projects. The Iraqi governors told members of the U.S. Congress that Iraqi companies could be doing the work at 10 percent of the cost.7

Sources:

1. "Iraq: 7 Million Jobless Persons," Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, InfoProd, 8/27/03.

2. "Contractors in Iraq Accused of Importing Labour and Exporting Profit," Financial Times/UK, 10/14/03.

3. Presidential Radio Address, 7/23/03.

4. Interview of Paul Bremer by Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News, 7/14/03.

5. "Iraq: 7 Million Jobless Persons," Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, InfoProd, 8/27/03.

6. "Contractors in Iraq Accused of Importing Labour and Exporting Profit," Financial Times/UK, 10/14/03.

7. Letter to OMB Director Joshua Bolten from Rep. Henry Waxman, 9/30/03.

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SQUAAAAAAWK!

by Krusty Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003 at 7:13 PM

It never fails with this fool! CLC! CLC! SKROX!

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By the way

by fresca Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003 at 7:15 PM

What's inherently wrong with cheap labor.

Is it the business owner's responsibility to save workers from themselves when they would otherwise willingly work for a lower wage?

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Deep Well of Resentment

by krankyman Friday, Oct. 24, 2003 at 1:07 PM

The number of comments about "regular joe" workers on this thread and many others is extremely revealing of the utter contempt that the corporatists have for people in this society. I have been on both sides of the equation,working for someone else and FOR myself. And this viewpoint that bootlicking conniving bosses(of which their are quite a few) are somehow superior to workers is total crap. I've had bosses who have fucked(literally and figuratively) the higher ups to get their positions. I have bosses who have screwed me out of wages that I have earned. I even had one boss that tried to get me to LIE under oath at a court trial. . Why are there so many scummy corporations i.e. Archer-Daniels-Midland, Enron, World-Com, Imclone, Arthur Andersen, Merril Lynch, jesus it almost never ends. I read the financial pages every day. Another fraud, another corporate crook. Because it makes no difference to these corporate scumbags how to get the profit. Just get it. Screw whoever , however, whatever. Just get the profit and if you can't well I guess their are always accounting interpretations(?). Called cooking the books. A worker that takes a couple of pencils home from work is a detestable louse to the number crunchers but a little Juggling-eroo of the books , hey that's just business as usual. Fuck the corporations. Fuck the Bosses too.

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km

by wakeupcall Friday, Oct. 24, 2003 at 1:24 PM

" I have bosses who have screwed me out of wages that I have earned" et. el

Who hasn't?? So what you're saying isn't corps are the problem, it the people in the corps and the protection they can get as a corp. Look doofus, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Eliminating corps aren't going to make bad people go away. They'll just find some other vehicle by which to fuck you over. Where there's a will, there's a way. I don't care what type of economy there is or who's in charge or if no one's in charge. People who wanna find a way to screw other people will find a way. You just got to learn to be a little smarter than they are. Get burned a few times and you start to wise up. That's life.

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Sounds like someone needs a hug!

by Krusty Friday, Oct. 24, 2003 at 1:26 PM

Geez, take chill pill, will ya, buddy? Walk right on up to that deep well of resentment and THROW YOURSELF IN.

I can't imagine anyone with your leftist's eye view of the world being ANYONE'S boss. You were certainly never an owner, or CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES!!! SQUAAAAWK!!! wouldn't be your favorite phrase.

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Sorry Your Wrong

by krankyman Saturday, Oct. 25, 2003 at 1:48 PM

Sorry, krustyfuck, your wrong I was a boss. And I treated my employees like human beings,not things,like most cheap labor conservatives do(remember when it was called "Personnel" before it became the more revealing "Human Resources"). And from your attitude,how many child labor sweatshops do you own? Or is that just your cheap labor conservative idea of teaching them the value of a dollar(probably what you pay them per day.)

Now for the other dingdong above. The idea of screwing workers is institutionalized within corporations when it doesn't matter what you do , the only thing that counts is the bottom line. Lie(P.R.). Cheat(cooking the books). Why have there been more corporate earnings restatements the past 3 years than the previous 20 years put together. Huh? I guess all these brainy guys just made a boo-boo. Steal(why all the off shore corporate accounts)20 or more were set-up by Dick Chaney when he was at Halliburton.It's all the day's work for most corporations. Scheming and defrauding is job no.1 for most corporations.

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Wow, I take it back

by Krusty Saturday, Oct. 25, 2003 at 2:35 PM

I didn't say you weren't a boss, I said, I couldn't imagine it. I DID say you were never an owner. As an owner, and a CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVE ( I oughta market a t-shirt) I also treated my employees like human beings, not slaves, (listen now, here comes the part hard for you to understand) BECAUSE IT IS MY INTEREST, AND THE INTEREST OF MY COMPANY TO DO SO. Got it? I treat my employees well, and pay them enough so they won't take the next job that comes along BECAUSE IT BENEFITS ME. If I have good employees who stick arouond, I MAKE MORE MONEY. I don't own my employees, and don't want to, except maybe the long legged redheads, but that's a story for another time.

Your idiotic child labor comments are beneath even you. And THAT takes some doing.

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