Obama's slavery czar

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Uh, wage slavery is not what you think it is.

Wage slavery was practiced by large mining concerns in Appalachia, in which miners lived in company towns, bought their food and all necessities from the "company store", and basically were just slaves that could not either improve their lot or leave due to what they owed the company.

That is not what the article is about, nor is it anything to compare with the average American's financial condition.

Please, learn to use google, it's your friend.

You know I'm sick of another word. I reality shows they keep saying 'competition'. I was like--"Can someone give these people a thesaurus. You can say contest or something else? lol

Personally i think 'Slave Lord' and 'Drug King' would sound way cooler and make more sense to most Americans.

A slave is not going to say outright they're a slave.

There's also working slaves. Usually single immigrant women who came in the US without an support system and they're usually the first in the family to immigrate into this country. I remember hearing a story of a illegal immigrant in NYC who was forced to work in a home by the housewife--who was married to some prominent personality--with little to no pay. If she complained the housewife threatened she would call INS and get her deported back to her home country.

Sex slavery exists every where in the world.
Police in my area will catch a 15 pound shipment of heroine and call it a victory when half the force knows that a 250 pound shipment just went by.
One busts' results are not that important on the larger scale of time in the area or the rest of the world in that instant.

well shame on the UK, because the people who are trolling for sex slaves to exploit have no problem finding them.

I'm generally against the death penalty, however I agree with all your other ideas. But I want to be clear if we were to execute rapists and murders then slavers should be right there with them.

thats the spirit!

*sigh*

So, really why bother--well, maybe if you're 5-year-old girl was kidnapped--you might think otherwise...

If this person does not want to fight for the rights of the oppressed we have failed as a democracy. Our own children are being kidnapped and put into sweat shops and brothels in other nations. I have heard people say that even the bible points out that there are masters and slaves. This idea sickens me. To think that someone wants to use religion as an excuse to own someone else makes me think that we have gone down the wrong road as a society. This is the one idea that should be crushed worldwide by any means, like a squashed bug slavery is not a right just because it has been around for many centuries.

Hey... Dubya had more czars (47) than Obama does (32) so I don't know why you weren't complaining then...

you go in there and see if you can do a better job cleaning up after generations of Bush idiocy unclecharlie.

George W. Bush was and remains one of the most incompetent persons ever to hold public office, even moreso than his would be successor Sarah Palin, and if you can't see that, you probably have your head stuffed somewhere most people can't bend over far enough to get theirs.

I believe we have the natural resources to fully feed, house and clothe everyone on earth, we arn't going about it the right way.
Don't be angry at the people reproducing,it's our right to want children. everything is the governments and corporations faults.

a recent study shows that we have the resources and ability to feed 9 billion people, TODAY! this is done with 75% smaller scale farms in the US and abroad and without corp GMOs. we have the resources, and the room, just not the priorities to get everyone healthy and feed. the system we live in needs to keep slavery to increase the bottom line of those on the top and needs to divide us to help us forget how powerful we are....

Stop being a hypocrite and kill yourself.
Unless you are joking. In which case just shut up cause slavery isn't funny.

the person who posted this argues that kids need education. please read the article again and edit your first comments.

Education is needed on multiple levels. How do you report known trafficking? What will these people do once they are not in forced labor? What are the costs? What are the trade off?

All these questions are currently being answered by this guy Obama appointed, and I promise you that they don't do anything about it today, because a majority of the people benefit quite a bit from this cheap labor. I'm not saying that I'm not against it, but I'm trying to help ignorant people--like you understand what else needs to be discussed to fully solve the issue.

Are you ready to pay $10 more for everything you buy because they have the same workers comp rights as an "American" worker. I didn't think so.

Maybe you should reread it. Nothing is said about what you allege, but they talk about the problem and how it is under-reported and not taken seriously at all worldwide.

Certainly at some point, the exploited folks WILL need to be educated, should they be released from their forced labor, but that is as true of 90% of the world's population anyway.

So your point is lost by your misunderstanding of the point of the story, which is NOT the necessary education of anyone, but is the fact that slavery is a huge problem worldwide and needs more attention.

What education is needed is, in the subject of this story, to educate THE PUBLIC in what human trafficking is, where it takes place, how to recognize it, and how it can be eradicated.

Plus, your stupid anti-Obama comments just detract from your post and kill what little credibility you may have had.

"Are you ready to pay $10 more for everything you buy because they have the same workers comp rights as an "American" worker. I didn't think so."

Well maybe if we took out the profit part that corporations feel they HAVE to make, clothes would be a lot cheaper, ofcourse that would never happen, but i felt you were aiming your blame at the people who buy these cheap clothes, which is part deserved, but corporations are the ones who enslave with low wages, then add on value for maximum profit. They are the ones who should all be burned at the steak.

I just want to point this out.

"There will always be a low class, or servant style class until everyone is taught how to farm their own food and sustain their lives."

If you brush up your history slavery been around during the BC era. Even when agriculture was establish roughly 10,000 years ago--and it's an relatively new when you think about it. Slavery was still happening. In fact in agriculture the people taking care of the farms--during the dark ages/Renaissance in Europe were Indentured servants to the kingdoms in the area and they were made to produce for them. During America's younger years plantation workers, farmers and people with aristocratic ties had slaves and indentured servants.

There is not a excuse in the world to say that a child can be taken from his or her family just because someone does not want to pay a little more for a shirt. Slavery is evil. That is the plain and simple truth. I bet the ones that are anti abortion are also the ones who think that slavery is none of our buisness because it has gone on for thousands of years. It is not right to subdue anouther human beings freedom just for the pleasure and profit of a few because they hold the wealth and power.

What the crap are you talking about? Are you actually defending slavery? You're one messed up dude.

There are 2 categories of questionable labor:
1) Labor that doesn't meet US standards: voluntary child labor, voluntary labor at places that would make OSHA vomit, etc
2) Involuntary slave labor

Your arguments make sense about the first category although they would still call your character into question. But you're using them about the second category and that's simply disgusting.

In my opinion, you COMPLETELY missed the point of this article, as well as the intent of the person who posted it. If you want to point out a need for education, you might start with yourself and learn how to actually comprehend what you are reading.

The point is,

“Whenever you have vulnerable people and greed, you have a recipe for slavery.”

Can we get rid of greed? Probably not, unless we also want to get rid of people. It's not like you can outlaw greed, societies have tried that before, and it just doesn't work.

You seem to be suggesting that we can't get rid of vulnerable people either, and you are probably right. But I don't think we want to get rid of the vulnerable people. They tell the rest of us who we really are. We can gauge our own humanity by the way we treat the most vulnerable in our society, and that includes animals. You can slam Obama all you want, but here is a leader, finally, who is willing to take a look at the way we treat our vulnerable, and frankly, I think it is long overdue. The Bush administration flaunted greed and manipulated the economies and laws of the world to make the world a better place for greed to thrive. The end result of that has not surprisingly produced more slavery. It is a rather simple equation, and it should be no surprise that someone as simple-minded as W was able to take that equation and wreak the kind of global havoc he did.

We are not going to be able to eliminate or legislate away greed, but we can step up and do our part to make the vulnerable less vulnerable. We are capable of creating a safer world for the vulnerable. Slavery is a mirror that forces humanity to reckon with its own nature. When slavery thrives, so does greed, and the first step towards ameliorating that situation is to look in the mirror, recognize what we see, and begin to do something about it. We are all guilty, but we are also all capable of making it better, every single day, in countless ways.

“Whenever you have vulnerable people and greed, you have a recipe for slavery.”

That is the point of the article.