Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day The US Embassy aided Levi’s, Hanes contractors in their fight agai
Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day
The US Embassy aided Levis, Hanes contractors in their fight against an increase in Haitis minimum wage.
http://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)employer in El Pass Texas. I guess that did not get them enough profit. 😢
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)"However, the State Department spokesperson added in the email: In Haiti, approximately 80 percent of the population is unemployed and 78 percent earns less than $1 per day actually, according to the UN Development Program, 78 percent of Haitians live on less than $2, not $1, a dayand the US government is working with the government of Haiti and international partners to help create jobs, support economic growth, promote foreign direct investment that meets ILO labor standards in the apparel industry and invest in agriculture and beyond.
Sadly, economic factors are difficult to accept when that many people are hurting. But sounds like the State Department might have made the best decision for the short term for the country as a whole.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)Sadly Hillary Clinton NYET
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Baobab
(4,667 posts)After all, there are a LOT of poor people elsewhere.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)America.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)its not a good thing.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Baobab
(4,667 posts)Your fake globalism is a sleazy exploitative narrative you use to take from working people everywhere and give more to the already extremely wealthy. Its bad for the economy of both countries because that money is not spent, its hoarded.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)investment first for that to do any good. Raising taxes or setting higher minimum wages don't do a lot of good if there is no foreign investment or jobs.
So, in your judgement, poor countries just need to stay that way because no one else is going to invest money in economic development which provides jobs, and taxes for health care, etc.
DetroitSocialist83
(169 posts)All the Haitian New Yorkers who hate the Clintons for this and other things.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Baobab
(4,667 posts)Promising jobs in the West as payback. other peoples jobs.
the corrupt dictators of the world love the Clintons and the Obama as and the Bushs, even if it is a bullshit promise, it keeps people HOPING, ship off the middle class to America instead of ending the corruption which keeps them down
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)would be great. But first you have to have the economic development and jobs.