I'm amazed by the support that this man has received, including one claim from Piers Morgan in a recent news paper article that "Mitt Romney may be the United States' cleanest politician ever. "With the information that has been available on this politician, I find it amazing the previous editor of the U.K.s Daily Mirror could come out with such a rediculous statement. My opinion of the British press was not very high to begin with, but has plummetted when a generally respected person can come out with a statement as ridulous as this. I have to say that I am highly suspicious that this has something to do with Piers Morgan's celebrity status in the States.ALTERNET.COM, an American web site recently gave some more accurate details about Mitt Romney.
"Far from the respectable business man he claims to be, Romney has long engaged in horrific practices that mock American values."
"Republicans like to paint Romney as an entrepeneur whose activities at Bain Capital have benefited Americans."
"Romney has spent his career offshoring and outsourcing American production processes and associated jobs to countries like China where human labour is valued in the market at a very low wage rate."
"The sub-human conditions at these production facilities represent things that Americans are strongly opposed to. Child abuse, squalor, forced over time and peanuts for pay."
"A report recently released by the 'Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights' reveals that while Romney was deeply invested at a firm called 'Global Tech', low pay and horrific conditions were status quo at it's Chinese appliance factory. At this factory a fence topped with barbed wire encloses the workers and prevents outsiders from entering."
"From April through to August 2000, Romney and his 'Brookside Capital Partners Fund',an affiliate of Bain Capital, the company Romney formed- poured around $23 Million into the Global-Tech sweat shop in Dongguan, China. Among the defects outlined in the report were the following :-
"* Factory workers made 24 cents an hour in 1998 and less than 2$ a day. Wages in Global-Tech were less than 2% of average U.S. wages."
"* Whilst being CEO, Romney appears to have been un-interested in calling for improvements at the facility. Today the sweat shop is still a horror where starvation wages prevail and workers wrights are non-existent. Over crowded filthy dormitories, rotten food,routine 15-16 hour shifts. 105 to 112 hour weeks are the norm."
"* The appliance factory has 800 student interns, 16 year olds forced to work repetetive exhausting 15-16 hour shifts on assembly lines with no over time pay."
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"On February 16 2012, Mitt Romney brought hypocrisy to new heights, assuring the public that, "We will not let China steal jobs from the United States of America.""
Like I tried to say in August, this is definitely the wrong man !
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