A politically motivated lawsuit

The US Textile Labor Union is rumored to be the co-architect in the class action lawsuit filed in federal court here last week. It’s appears a combined effort to kill our last goose that lays the golden egg, so to speak, between Interior’s OIA, and California Congressman George Miller who represents the West Coast’s capital of garment manufacturing.

Miller came out swinging wildly that the lawsuit is a good move in putting an end to human rights abuses in the NMI, a view that isn’t only old fodder but turns a mold into a mountain as though we haven’t taken actual reform or that our situation pales those of New York’s sweatshops and virtual slavery of children in California’s farmlands. It is regrettable that his underlying motive is to keep the textile union bosses happy for bankrolling his re-election last November. Obviously, he too never had our fate and interest at heart.

At the root of the problem is the Democratic Agenda found in the North American Free Trade Agreement that encouraged trade within and among countries between Canada, Caribbean, Latin and South America. It prompted the relocation of big American companies to countries like Mexico for one single reason: Labor Is Cheap! It’s $6 a day in Mexico versus $18 an hour in manufacturing companies up north.

If Miller and Interior’s Allen Stayman are true to their commitment to improving the lot of the entire human race, then they should be barking louder than Goliath that Mexico and other Latin American countries pay their employees $5.15 an hour. The argument is basically the same other than their ability to coax the liberal national media into blowing the issue out of proportion in their favor. It’s a very tactful move–to use employees on cases that have been settled in recent years–on behalf of moneyed union bosses at our expense.

Does the US textile union care about the fate of the NMI in this case? Obviously not for it is far more important for them to fill their pockets and re-elect their own congressional guards who would protect their interests even with blind faith. How sad that the NMI doesn’t have an equal voice in US Congress to ward off greedy sharks who pander and bow to the whims of those who bankroll their political career. Despite the “dog eat dog” attitude of our detractors for they only could smell what guarantees their re-election, the truth shall prevail in all the hollowed attempts to send the people of these islands back into the welfare rolls of the federal government. Is this the reinvented version of the American Dream?