Laid off Chinese factory workers destroy workplace

dixiegrrrrl

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Fri Dec-12-08 10:41 AM
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Laid off Chinese factory workers destroy workplace

story link below pic.

Our failure to shop means China may drop...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28037960/

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YOY

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Fri Dec-12-08 10:43 AM
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1. Good.

Sorry for any discomfort to regular Chinese folks but they should not be the goddamn manufacturing capital of the world.

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anigbrowl

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Fri Dec-12-08 02:50 PM
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6. Why, do we have some kind of right to that title?

As long as the goods meet safety standards and so forth, then they ought to be able to sell them wherever they like.

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YOY

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Fri Dec-12-08 03:06 PM
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8. No. No single nation should have the right to that title.

Edited on Fri Dec-12-08 03:09 PM by YOY

And no modern nation should ever ship all their manufacturing abroad...a fools gambit.

As for China, they don't meet safety standards.

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notadmblnd

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Fri Dec-12-08 10:43 AM
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2. if only more American workers would stand up for their right to work

Corporate America would not run our government.

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Jim__

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Fri Dec-12-08 11:06 AM
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4. My first thought when I read this. - n/t

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CountAllVotes

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Fri Dec-12-08 02:12 PM
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5. if all workers were unionized

this would be the natural outcome!

UNION YES!

:kick:

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Joanne98

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Fri Dec-12-08 10:47 AM
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3. YAY!

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Citizen Number 9

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Fri Dec-12-08 02:54 PM
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7. Yeah. Let's hear it for vandalism.

Although I'm not sure how it will help the employees get the compensation they are due.

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DemReadingDU

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Fri Dec-12-08 06:26 PM
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9. check out the video at the link

thousands of protesters, and unemployed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28100442#28100442

slideshow of 7 pictures
the girl in the 1st photo doesn't look very old
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28145769/displaymode/1107/s/2/

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sarcasmo

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Sat Dec-13-08 12:46 AM
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10. You gotta give it to them, Americans will never do something, unless we take away our reality TEEVEE

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