Bush tells the White House press corps that he is still praying for the dead Chinese pilot, and that he looks forward to welcoming home America's 24 servicepeople. Thank you, Kmart shoppers. It was just business. But when Kmart speaks, China listens. Big Business remained pretty much mum about our hostaged air crew since it went down on April 1.
Filipino wages are very high.
Wages in every other developing country are higher than they are in China. She cited a 1998 study conducted by the National Labor Committee, New York, showing that factories making goods for Kmart, Wal-Mart, Ann Taylor, Liz Claiborne, Nike, J.C. Penney, Ralph Lauren, Esprit and The Limited were paying a fraction of the 87 cents, some paying as little as 13 cents an hour. It pumps more cash into China. After all, making dough on the sweat of Chinese workers is what jungle capitalism is all about. Never mind that China is a repressive state that crushes any dissent, according to the U.S. State Dept.