Ted Rall - Saturday November 15, 2003 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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During the '90s, savvy CEOs moved their manufacturing plants to Mexico. (Man 1: I dunno. I feel bad about putting loyal Americans out of work.) (Man 2: Yeah, but we can tripe our bonuses by exporting jobs to the Maquiladoras!) (Man 1: You win.) Now, however, even slave wages and freedom to pollute don't seem enough. (Man 1: 500 out of 3,700 Maquiladoras have already come to China... we only pay a fraction of Mexico's wages!!) (Man 2: Thank God for totalitarianism!) China offers complaint workers at bargain prices. But what if they unionize? The craftiest exects are packing up their jobs and moving to the moon! (Man 1: If they give us any lip, we'll cut off the air!) (Man 2: Because there's no law here!! Haha!) No laws. No unions. No problem. Tranquility sea industrial park is filling up fast! (Man: I've followed my job from Indianapolis to Mexicali to Shanghai to lunar base "M" and from $42 to $2 to 20 cents to a tank of O2!) (Man 2: Your loyalty made this company what it is today.

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