Bachmann's Basic Business Plan

Some members of the GOP, the champion of the free market system, the captains of capitalism, have started saying we need to start emulating the business practices of China.  WTF?!?  The champions of personal freedom want to give businesses the power to literally rule the lives of their workers.  Then again, I suppose they are just trying to protect the rights of some of our most persecuted people...the corporations.

They keep saying we need to end the welfare state and force Americans to pick themselves up by their own bootstraps, and now it's like they are saying our workers need to do it at a rate of $1.00 an hour.

Chinese factory workers live in cramped, dirty dorms.  Their rent plus the cost of food is just a shade less than what they make.  Apparently paid dorm fees are automatically removed from their paychecks,  so even if they choose to forgo company housing, the workers are often compelled to pay rent at the company dorm.  And if they get sick, the company's stance is often, "No work, no pay."  It's similar to how factory workers were treated in the United States around the turn of the 20th century.

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