President Obama: Defender of the Poor and Working Man!

[wkmac]

That's not what Wikileaks has uncovered! (at the link scroll down to see the article)

A Wikileaks post published on The Nation shows that the Obama Administration fought to keep Haitian wages at 31 cents an hour. (This article was taken down by The Nation due to an embargo, but it was excerpted at Columbia Journalism Review.) (note: story at Columbia link also very good)

It started when Haiti passed a law two years ago raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. According to an embassy cable:

This infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day).

Haiti has about 25,000 garment workers. If you paid each of them $2 a day more, it would cost their employers $50,000 per working day, or about $12.5 million a year ... As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made $211 million on $4.3 billion in sales last year.

Thanks to U.S. intervention, the minimum was raised only to 31 cents.

Now that sounds exactly like something GW would do don't it?

 

[Lue C Fur]

Maybe GW has not left office and he is in "Black Face".

 

[steward71]

Maybe GW has not left office and he is in "Black Face".

Funny

 

[wkmac]

Maybe GW has not left office and he is in "Black Face".

Maybe you're on to something Lue. Would explain why everything is still Bush's fault!

But then, if your guy keeps doing everything Bush would do, how can you complain and point fingers?

I'm just sayin!

 

[Babagounj]

Obama Says Being President Is Making His Hair Go Grey
The country is going to hell in a hand basket and this ***face is complaining about his hair.

 

[moreluck]

Obama overpromised & underdelivered.......

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011...sed-and-undelivered-on-shovel-ready-projects/

 

[Babagounj]

(Daily Mail) — If Barack Obama’s worried about finding enough cash for his 2012 election campaign, he needn’t be — his wife’s got it covered.
The First Lady charged lucky — and wealthy — bidders a whopping $10,000 to have their photograph taken with her at a fundraising luncheon today in Los Angeles.
With 500 attendees, it means Michelle Obama could have netted up to $5million just for smiling at the camera, on top of the $1,000 each person paid per plate.

You’d have to be mentally disturbed to pay $10,000 to have your picture taken with FLOTUS.
http://weaselzippers.us/



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[Lue C Fur]

That is so hot!!!

 

[moreluck]