Voting with your money...

You might think that you are anti-slavery and that it all ended with the abolition of slavery and with the 13th amendment. What you may not know is that with your dollars everyday you could be promoting slavery all over the world. Slavery runs most rampant in clothing and textiles, so when you are buying your clothes think about looking at the tag. I received a gift for Christmas from JC Penny and I took it back to get something else. When I looked around at all of the clothes every tag said made in Vietnam. I had just quit a job working with many Vietnamese people and knew that they had come here for freedom. I did not want to be responsible for promoting the slavery that goes on there, or anywhere else for that matter.
Do you drink coffee? Eat bananas? Buy flowers from the florist? You very well may be promoting the enslavement of people around the world. There are even sweatshops in the United States that somehow go under the radar. This race to making the cheapest products fastest is clear and obvious when evaluation the quality of many products mass produced in the United States and abroad. You can't buy anything that will last more than a year or two, even if you get what you think may be the highest quality item. This is only a tiny aspect of the wrong in the way things are manufactured in our society. Greed is all that is to blame.
The reason that the US goes to foreign countries to seek out employment is because they know that the same rules don't apply. They can pay people basically nothing to do the same work they would have to at least pay minimum wage or more for in the US. People say that the people working are lucky to have jobs, and that they don't need to make as much as we do. Say whatever you need to say to make yourself feel better, but these people cannot live off of their salary. Walmart's rate for sewing clothing in Honduras is 43 cents and hour. These people can barely eat and get to and from work on this salary, much less pay other bills or get healthcare. The US is not ignorant of the things going on. They track their products closely to make sure they are getting the most from their money, so they are very aware of what is going on.
I made the decision a few years ago to boycott walmart, even if it means spending double what I would pay there. Research good and bad companies on this site...I got most of my info on sweatshops from here. Don't support slavery...you have a choice!!