Nike should be banned from the USA!

Never in my life have i had so little faith in the goodness of my fellow humans. I don't know if it is ignorance or spite that would allow you to speak with such nonchalance about the suffering that these corporations have caused. But i get ahead of myself. 1. There is no gun of course, but how about acceptance? Klein talks about a childhood experience that she had: "I was in Grade 4 when skintight designer jeans were the be-all end-all, and my friends and i spent allot of time checking each other's butt for logos. "nothing comes between me and my Nikes," Brooke Sheilds assured us," What does this tell you? If you don't wear the right clothes you lose your "cool." I bet you wear Nikes and have several name brand clothing that you wear. Why do you wear them? social pressure, because, as you say, they work no better than the ones you buy at the street corner. Only unlike a med degree at Harvard, it doesn't make you better at anything. If that doesn't ring true, then how about this, a group of teachers teaching high school student in NYC told their classes about nikes. This school was composed mainly of lower to middle class black and Latino children. When they learned how much they were being ripped off, they had a protest and dumped thousands of shoes upon Nike's doorsteps. You see, it isn't a crime to over price things, but it should be a crime to overprice things and hide how much you are ripping them off. The mothers of these children pay their price. Who do you think pays for their 120$ shoes? How do middle and lower class families pay for these shoes, often more than one pair per person? Either the parents break their backs for logos or they resort to crime, not knowing that they are doing this not for the shoes, but for a logo. If that isn't morally wrong i don't know what is. 2. Colleges are status symbols recognizing that you worked hard to get into the university, then worked hard to get good grade inside of it. Logos are simply a little bit of fabric sown onto your shoes, there is a big difference. 3. Sorry to sound sentimental, but it really breaks my heart to hear you put it like that. I hope it is because you haven't researched the topic, but to say that you don't care about your fellow human beings as they are abused really disturbs me. a. you said that somehow these countries not having minimum wage justifies paying them a little amount of money. (if this wasn't your point then it isn't justified and your point is moot) What kind of morals do you have that you are willing to let these poor, abused (yes they are abused, people are fined for loss of production when being pregnant, overtime is forced, yet not paid, and there have been many cases in which employees were beaten or otherwise humiliated) people be? Nike was unable to get away with such gross violation of human rights in the US so they simply moved it over seas. I don't know if you support the constitution, especially when it says, liberty and justice FOR ALL (you should vote for the amendment "except those over seas" (oh and while your at it add "cripples and unfit" and you might as well become a Nazi, after all, the abuse is on the same level)). I really hope that not all who read this are so callous to the pain of our fellow homo sapians that they would let them suffer such a fate (because inaction is the same as letting it happen) b. Now for the economics of it all. Here, i am glad to know that is ignorance, not brutality that was speaking. You are mistaken if you think that Nike in any way helps the economies of the countries that build their products. There is a cycle. All the countries are desperate for companies to come because of their financial status. How do they attract these corporations? they offer them free time on their lands, to draw them in. Nike comes in, sets up shop, demolishes any other way to make a living, pays no money for being there and then leaves when they are about to pay taxes. Not only does Nike rape the people by giving them no money or benefits then leaving them to rot when they leave, but the whole time they are there, they aren't even paying taxes and helping the economy. Somehow, i think no jobs would be better than destroying their communities and leaving them. I am very sorry if i was insulting during this argument, but i believe that the morals behind your argument are abhorrent, and need to labeled as such.