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I think it's gonna snow in South Florida, cuz i completely agree.

There's way too much serious, racist/political/religious/war crap going o n in these forums.

What have you people done with the REAL TDMMC readers?

Don't forget physics debates as well.

I am so different than some people on this board.  If someone can't see that the American way of life is oppressive to other nations, what can I do?  ...what can I say?  It's so clear to me

I don't mean that we're evil -- I don't think we are.  But I think that we contribute to world poverty.  When we pay 75 cents an hour for a kid to make Nikes, and then sell them here for 150 bucks a pair, the spread of wealth is very screwed up.  It gives one side all the money and power to get things to go their way.  More than that, though, it creates a vicious cycle, where the people making Nikes start to depend on that 75 cents an hour to even survive.

We're not to blame as individuals, but we are part of a machine that is allowing this kind of stuff to happen.  ...we'd have to lose some of our wealth to spread it around the world, but it would make for a better planet.

Can someone post some more ASCII porn already, please?

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Can someone post some more ASCII porn already, please?

But I think that we contribute to world poverty.  When we pay 75 cents an hour for a kid to make Nikes, and then sell them here for 150 bucks a pair, the spread of wealth is very screwed up.  It gives one side all the money and power to get things to go their way.  More than that, though, it creates a vicious cycle, where the people making Nikes start to depend on that 75 cents an hour to even survive.

Hasn't the Fed raised the interest rates lately to curb some of America's rampant consumerism?

The debates anger me...because there is no debating.  They are bottom of the barrel arguments, where neither side gives.

I am so different than some people on this board.  If someone can't see that the American way of life is oppressive to other nations, what can I do?  ...what can I say?  It's so clear to me.  Now, I'd be able to discuss the different options on how to deal with this -- whether we should, etc.  ..but it never gets to that point.

There is so much blaming, and I just can't take it any more.

Hasn't the Fed raised the interest rates lately to curb some of America's rampant consumerism? I heard a baby boomer talking the other day and she was absolutely disgusted with her generation, how materialistic it'd become. I think the next generation might be a little simpler... i hope it will, anyway.

I don't have your experience but let me take a crack...

Why is the kid forced to work for $.75 an hour?  Because there aren't better jobs available.  Apparently there are no jobs for his parents, or their job don't pay enough - so the kid must work. 

If there were plenty of jobs and they all paid considerably more - then NIKE wouldn't have any employees.  They'd have to pay more.  The market sets the wage.

In addition, how much is that $.75 relative to our terms?  According to most of the dozens of Mexicans I've discussed this with, the reason they can work up here for peanuts is because the money the send home inflates an average 1000% in relative value.  At minimum wage they make $800 or so a month.  They keep half and send half home.  The half that goes home is the equivalent of $4000.  How can they live here off of $400 a month?  They put 4-8 amigos in a 2 room apartment.  We consider them abjectly poor while they realize it's temporary while they build up a considerable nest egg at home.

Just for "fun" calculate how much money is sucked out of our economy each year.

10,000,000 people sending money home x $300 per person per month x 12 months = $36,000,000,000 per year.  THIRTY SIX BILLION DOLLARS! 

Even if you get more conservative (which you all should  :P) and use 5,000,000 and $200 - it's still TEN BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.



In summary, people overseas take our $.75/hour because that's the best job available.

There's way too much serious, racist/political/religious/war crap going o n in these forums.

What have you people done with the REAL TDMMC readers?

I think it's good. Better than apathy.

Nobody here really cares about apathy anyways...

Well the so called dozens of Mexicans you have been around have lied to you. They have no intention of staying temporarily. When they disapear, they haven't gone home, they have circulated to another area/followed the harvest. Not only are they proping up their own shithole country by sending money, they are breeding and filling up schools with their children, while we foot the bill for ESL and other classes.

The kids never got any real education due to the constant uprooting, and when they reappeared, our teachers had to restrucutre the lesson plan to deal with them, which slowed us down.