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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 12:33 AM
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19. I like Post 16; also,
We should seek to enter treaties, promote international law that would protect foreign workers from exploitation.

I happen to believe that until workers in other countries are able to earn higher wages, jobs will, one way or another, tend to migrate to those countries, and I have a hard time saying no to that when so many people elsewhere are so desperately poor.

But it's one thing if other countries citizens are willing to work for a wage lower than we'd get here but that's still much higher than they could otherwise earn there; and it's another thing if those people are unnecessarily, cruelly exploited because authorities there somehow profit by allowing it.
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