Almost two years ago, I created a “slave labor” category on this blog, and wrote the first post in that category: “Caught Slaving – Again.” Since then, I have been crusading against the return to a slave-labor based economy – pretty much a one-man crusade. So, I was shocked to see slave labor discussed on CNBC, of all places, on Friday’s episode of The Kudlow Report. And it wasn’t a Democratic pundit who brought it up; it was Republican Ann Coulter. And she also brought an argument that you normally only hear from Democrats: that “welfare” programs like food stamps are really a subsidy to companies that employ workers at slave-labor wages. For example, near the end of the video below, she says:

“I’m subsidizing the cheap businessman’s cheap labor.”

Coulter also thinks that the 14% jump in young black men voting for Romney is because of his tough position on immigration. I have outlined in red the polling data from Pew Research:

As far as I can tell, nobody really knows why so many young black men ditched Obama. However, it is indeed possible that Coulter is correct, and blacks are becoming increasingly aware that their high unemployment rate is due to mass immigration. I’m sure that Romney personally fired many African-Americans as he was shipping jobs to China en-masse during his long destroying-America career, but there was more noise about his immigration position during the debates, what with “self-deportation” and all. So, it is indeed plausible that that is the reason why those black men switched parties. They just want their jobs back, and Obama has not delivered, but rather has made things worse.

Of course, we don’t want to give too much credit to Coulter, because like she said in the video, under the “right” circumstances she would erase the USA’s borders just as eagerly as Kudlow and Norquist would. And the minimum wage; and child-labor laws, etc. However, if subsequent research finds that blacks do indeed want an end to mass immigration, the Republicans might seize the opportunity to steal the black vote from the Democrats.

And then the “Party of Lincoln” would have come full circle. The Republican Party was formed to end slavery, and that’s exactly what their first president, Abraham Lincoln, did. However, in recent decades, the Republicans have pulverized the black community under the globalist, neoliberal “leadership” of David Rockefeller. Their jobs have been sent abroad, and what few remained have been taken over by a massive wave of immigration – all in the name of cheap labor.

It’s hard to believe that the Republicans would once again fight against slavery, but I don’t see the Democrats racing to do it. In fact, I see even the labor unions agreeing to a larger tidal wave of immigration. And it might be the only way for the Republican Party to survive, because as we saw in 2012, Asians and Latinos are running away from them.

Today, all three major political factions are neoliberal: Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians. But as the Urban Intifada intensifies, it is very possible that the first party to turn against neoliberalism will be the party that carries the day in the future. Neoliberalism is the cancer just waiting for a political party to come along and win glory by excising it.

Is it just me, or is Larry Kudlow eager to drive tanks over Chinese workers?

At the 1:05 mark of the video below, Kudlow asks his guest:

“At what point, if these internal company riots continue, does the Chinese government crack down with Tienanmen Two, or 2.0, or 3, or whatever? At what point does the Chinese government crack down?”

What kind of person is a Tienanmen Square Massacre fan?

And Kudlow seems to yearn for a whole series of massacres. Using a software nomenclature, “2.0″, implies that Kudlow is yearning for improved massacre methods. Like a giddy fan boy, he’s drooling over the prospect of sexy new slaughtering methods. Maybe the tanks will have special “gore scoopers” to clear away bodies more efficiently. Maybe the tanks will come in multiple colors. OMG! I can’t wait! I will stand in line all night!

The funny thing is that at the time, we didn’t even know what caused the riot. Today, DigiTimes reported:

“Foxconn said it will also ensure its duties relating to employee welfare are implemented and it will make over-time payments as promised.”

Looks like those workers had a good reason to riot after all.

Note to Kudlow: What do you have to say about that? Or do you condone the practice of “wage theft”?

DigiTimes also reported that Foxconn will “strengthen their patrols” and “work to pacifying their subordinates.”

Has Donald Rumsfeld been appointed CEO of Foxconn?

And no, the multinationals will not pull production out of China. They have the same attitude that Kudlow does: militarized production is a feature, not a bug.

The New York Times reports that Chinese students are being forced to work as “interns” on Foxconn assembly lines. Said one student:

“The university told us it’s a good way to experience corporate culture,” a 19-year-old student told China Daily newspaper. “Even though many of my classmates are reluctant to go to Foxconn, our teachers still asked us to work there starting in August.”

Ironically, what the kid said is all too true: it is indeed a good way to experience multinational culture.

What ever happened to the America that prided itself on abolishing slavery?

Harvard historian Niall Ferguson just wrote: “Get ready to be a slave in China’s world order.”

But you read it here first six months ago in: “There’s a Sweatshop in Your Future.”

How can I run six months ahead of the Harvard egghead types? Easy question.

Because I can see The Matrix.

And it’s about faith. If you don’t believe in pure evil, you will always be underestimating what the The Matrix has in store for you.

In any case, Ferguson is too worried about the Chinese:

“If China can impose low wages and harsh working conditions in emerging markets, how long before they start doing the same to us?”

So, I have a homework assignment for the professor: Go on a field trip to American warehouses and have a look at the wages and conditions imposed by American managers on American workers. Don’t go to the Costco facilities; they still treat workers like human beings there. And don’t go to the Walmart company facilities; go to their contract facilities instead. You know, the ones where they have plausible deniability.

Ferguson writes about a Chinese-owned mine in Africa:

“A typical monthly wage packet is about £54 — barely enough to feed a family. The Chinese pay Chinese wages for Chinese working hours. That has unnerving implications for everyone who wants to win Chinese investment. If you want the Chinese to put money into your economy, you had better get ready to work as hard as they do — and for as little.”

Foxconn may have its suicide nets, but in US warehouses pregnant women are made to work like dogs in 100 degree heat, with ambulances standing by outside. And many of them are so badly paid that they still quailify for food stamps!

The most thorough reporting that I have seen on the story is from Dave Jamieson at HuffPo: “The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse.”

A while back, when Chinese workers were striking for higher wages, CNBC had an expert on to discuss the event. Where could the multinationals move their sweatshops to maintain maximum profitability? During the course of the conversation, Indonesia came up, and the expert said that the nation didn’t have enough people.

I thought: “That’s weird. As I recall, Indonesia has a rather large number of people, nowhere near as many as China, of course, but still up there.”

So, I concluded that the supply of workers must be very, very huge to meet the demand of China’s massive industrial base while keeping wages down.

But now I think that it is more than just simple supply and demand. It also has to do with working conditions. A Foxconn executive said that their monthly turnover rate is 5%. So, with one million workers, they are burning through 50,000 workers a month.

With the punitive working conditions required to make profits under the harsh demands from Silicon Valley to keep costs down, a vast pool of downtrodden peasants is required.

How many cities in the world could accommodate Foxconn? How many cities have 600,000 people to churn-and-burn through each year? Not many, I suspect.

So maybe Indonesia really doesn’t have enough people to keep the sweatshops churning out obscene profits – even if it is the fourth most-populous nation in the world. (China, India, and the USA, are the top three.)

And I think this also can explain why immigration into the USA was run at a record rate straight through the Great Recession, unlike during the Great Depression when immigration was shut down.

They are building up our population in preparation for bringing the Foxconn sweatshop model here.

See also:
Immigration Armageddon.
There’s a Sweatshop in Your Future.
Here Come the Shanty Towns.
List of nations by population.

Apple was forced to release its list of suppliers today, and I think a genius named Mike Daisey is responsible. On January 6th, a PBS station aired his podcast about his trip to China to interview sweatshop workers. This spellbinding podcast is an hour long, so make sure you are ready to listen to it all, because once you start, you won’t be able to turn it off. Go to this page and click the red “Play” button.

CNBC tried to spin the news by saying it was a great resource for finding Apple supplier’s to invest in! Not exactly what I would call hard-hitting journalism. They didn’t even use the word “sweatshop” in any of their stories. In CNBC-land, sweatshops are just “facilities”.

While this story is about Apple, it is unfair to single them out. All multinationals are guilty of this. Nevertheless, Apple could be vulnerable. How hard could it be to make an Android tablet in the USA, and market it under a “No Sweat” brand? Could “sweatshop consciousness” be the next “environmental consciousness”? Could the “No Sweat” pad be the next Prius?

Now that would be something.

Kardashian clothes and shoes are made in sweatshops? Who knew? I’m shocked! Shocked!

But is it really fair to single-out the Kardashians? I mean, this is America after all. Our top national goal is to have as many products made in sweatshops as possible. Why else would we have trade treaties that don’t require minimum-wage laws in exporting countries?

Speaking of which, here are two CNBC bubble-heads, Jane Wells and Carl Quintanilla having a chuckle over California’s proposed anti-sweatshop law (at 2:15 into the video). Wells is outraged and says in an exasperated tone:

“Large retailers have to prove their stuff isn’t made using child slave labor.”

Really Jane? Are you sure that you want to defend child slave labor? I mean, sure, the vast majority of Americans do approve of child slave labor, but most don’t come right out and say it, right?

Last week, I wrote a note to myself: “The Republicans will have to take down building codes.” Here is a photo of the yellow sticky:

Seems like an obscure and crazy thing to predict, right? But five days later, Herman Cain, the leading Republican presidential candidate, came out against building codes. From Fox News:

“All building codes, regulations, restrictions, and requirements should be reviewed from the standpoint of whether they impede economic growth.”

How’s that for an amazing prediction?

How did I do that? Easy. The thesis that I put forth in “There’s a Sweatshop in Your Future” is dead on.

Think about it: Suppose you repeal the minimum wage and force people into your sweatshops at the prevailing global-market rate of $2 per hour. Where would your workers live? Nobody can pay the rent in the USA on $2 per hour. Obviously, third-world style shanty towns are required – just like the ones that sprang up around American factories when they relocated to Mexico after NAFTA went into effect in 1994.

But we have building codes in this country that prevent the construction of shanty towns. And so it became necessary to recast those laws that keep buildings from collapsing on us during natural disasters into evil, job-killing GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS that are holding back the sainted “jobs creators” from saving America.

So, it was just a logical extension of the changes needed in the Republican platform. Of course, if the Republicans didn’t do it, the Democrats would have. After all, you will soon be purchasing products made in communist North Korean sweatshops thanks to President Obama’s trade deal with South Korea, which sub-contracts work to the north.

The sweatshop/shanty-town system is coming. Both Republicans and Democrats agree. The unions will put up token resistance, but they will be paid off.