Some goodies about Tom Delay

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The Real Delay - Saipan
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/

Delay's ethics
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0429-26.htm

Stranger Than Paradise
How Tom DeLay's deregulatory ideology stretched to the island of Saipan
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1743

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1. i re-learned about this yesterday

One of the students in my Globalization class did her presentation on
the difficult lifes of people that go to Saipan to earn money to their families under horrendous sweat shop conditions behind barbed wire fences.
These articles talk about that situation; and how Tom Delay came over to Saipan and gave all that his blessing.

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2. It won't be long

Until Mr. Delay knows just what it is like to work for peanuts behind a barbed wire fence.

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3. DeLay (isn't that French?) derailed a bill of Murkowski's. Amazing.

So uber conservative Sen. Murkowski's bill didn't see light of day in the House because of DeLay and Abramoff.

DeLay is an embarrassment to the Christian faith.

"How conservative? His voting record earned him zero ratings from organized labor's AFL-CIO and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and perfect 100s from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Conservative Union.

But as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Frank Murkowski became furious at the abusive sweatshop conditions endured by workers, overwhelmingly immigrants, in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, of which Saipan is the capital."
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"Contrast that with what then-Sen. Murkowski told me in a 1998 interview: "The last time we heard a justification that economic advances would be jeopardized if workers were treated properly was shortly before Appomattox."

The "Made in the USA" label means standards of quality and standards of conduct.

But more important than how a product is made is how the people who make that product are treated -- as human beings with innate dignity -- who are free to organize and entitled to a living wage.

Did somebody say something about moral values?"

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4. I know! how much worse can you get

maybe SATAN???

barf