jerseyhoya wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

pacino wrote:mitt praised a factory in china where women sleep four to a bed and are only allowed to go home around after the chinese new year. and he believed the bosses who said 'the fences we have around the facility are to keep people OUT from trying to work and then ask for compensation!!!'

worker's paradise, rural china

This reminds me of those republican trips to the Marshall Islands (I think that was the place). Horrible factory conditions, horrible pay, and the republican officials thought we could learn something from them.

They want to turn the clock way back to a time before unions when people worked in terribly unsafe conditions for little pay and no future or chance for advancement. Zero upward mobility would give Mitt an eternal boner. Heck, maybe they can even put kids back to work.

The entire point of the story was that being in America was good because we don't have working conditions like those in China

Grotewold wrote:TIMEOUT

jeff2sf wrote:I'm not complaining for someone else, I'm complaining for myself. It's brutal to read this thread right now. It almost makes me want to vote for Romney and I'm sure I don't want to vote for Romney.

jeff2sf wrote:I'm not complaining for someone else, I'm complaining for myself. It's brutal to read this thread right now. It almost makes me want to vote for Romney and I'm sure I don't want to vote for Romney.

Monkeyboy wrote:As a related aside, do you guys think JH believed the Soviets when they said the wall was to keep people out? All signs point to yes.

jeff2sf wrote:conservatives who aren't knuckle draggers once in a while.

Trent Steele wrote:I think this thread is fun. And by fun I mean the worst thread on the board. Vox was right.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:They want to turn the clock way back to a time before unions when people worked in terribly unsafe conditions for little pay and no future or chance for advancement. Zero upward mobility would give Mitt an eternal boner. Heck, maybe they can even put kids back to work.

Like back to the time when my grandfather died in the mines at age 26. He started working there at age 12. He was killed in a mine collapse due to insufficient safety protocol. It was two months before my mother was born. They didn't have survivors benefits, no right to litigation, etc. back then, so there was no compensation for his death from the coal company or government. As a result, my mother was raised in poverty, living in her uncle's "company" house with no indoor plumbing with her mother and two aunts (and the uncle), and eventually dropped out of school at age 15 to work in a textile sweatshop (with her mother and aunt) for a 2 cents piece rate.

CFP wrote:

jeff2sf wrote:I'm not complaining for someone else, I'm complaining for myself. It's brutal to read this thread right now. It almost makes me want to vote for Romney and I'm sure I don't want to vote for Romney.

Wait, someone's ramblings on a baseball message board's political thread make you want to vote for someone you didn't plan on voting for? Am I reading this right?

Doll Is Mine wrote:Jeff, please don't vote for Romney.

jeff2sf wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:Jeff, please don't vote for Romney.

Well since you asked nicely...

I'm not voting for Romney. There's 0 chance of it. But it's like come on already.

jeff2sf wrote:No, you don't get it. All you do is post self-righteous shit about how obvious your opinion is the correct one. And you get your opinion validated by like liberals such as mozart,monkeyboy, doll is mine.

Maybe step out into the world and talk to conservatives who aren't knuckle draggers once in a while.