What nations provide most of America's Slave Labor?

[franksumatra]

The most obvious is Mexico, all those illegal immigrants allowed to cross the border to pick our strawberries and lettuce, and then tossed back over the border like so many pack animals. No benefits, none of the nice aspects of working in America, just back breaking labor, at the lowest possible wage.

All the nations that were hit by the tsunami, all those people work as slaves for us, for pennies a day, long hours, no benefits, making our sneakers and high tech gadgetry. India, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, etc.

And of course China, almost everything you buy has a 'Made in China' sticker on it somewhere, usually on the bottom, very small.

We even have slave laborers here, working for the lowest possible legal wages allowed by the lawmakers, who ride with drivers, in stretch limos, and eat only the finest foods while hobnobbing with kings and queens and ambassadors.

The minimum wage seemingly never goes up, and anyone who's worked for minimum wage while supporting a family knows, it's really slavery. But the third world slaves have it much worse off than our slaves. And there are untold millions of them.

Some will argue that they are not actual slaves, and cite not too distant history to show what real slavery is. the only difference is, you can't outright sell people in markets any more, and you can't beat them and kill them with impunity.

The fact remains, the people who make America's gross national products are slaves. They see America as a nation of arrogant excess and luxury that they will never have. They are not welcome here, except in our kitchens and onion fields, where you can't see them.

[RoeBear]

1. You are insulting the great tragedy of slavery

that my family had to endure.

[franksumatra]

2. no insult intended

seriously, I know history well enough, and am ashamed at America's slave owning past. I just see it as a continuation of it, encompassing the globe. I see it as the New American Century Slavery.

[franksumatra]

5. Martin Luther King supported raising the minimum wage

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0114-22.htm

The concept of paying someone the absolute lowest legally allowed wage for hard labor is obscene.

A person needs to make at least $15 an hour just to break even, at 40 hours per week. But it's about $5.15, just enough to exist and get the kids a new toy.

I agree with MLK, but the fat cats don't.

[JanMichael]

3. Wage Slavery now is as much a fact as pre-CW Slavery.

It doesn't dimish what African Americans had to endure, it's simply another nasty componant of how Humanity treats those without Power.

[GarySeven]

4. The Red States.

The people so many on this board want to secede from.