Friday, October 21, 2005

Tom Delay the Compassionate Conservative -- this is a repeat of a blog i wrote in june

This post was taken from notes I took from a few news broadcasts on the subject. So excuse any misspellings, mainly Saipan (pronounced Sie pan).

Women from Taiwan who are charged $7,000 and a promise that they will be taken to the United States and given jobs are being duped in a cruel way. Saipan is a commonwealth of the United States, so products made there can carry the label 'MADE IN THE U.S.A.' So these women are sent to Saipan to work in sweat shops for sweat shop wages. So they've sorta been sent to the U.S. and they are given jobs.

Problem is they don't make enough money to repay the loans (the $7,000 cost to get there is usually in the form of a loan) and are forced into prostitution to make the money to repay the loans. As if that's not bad enough, if they happen to get pregnant they are forced to have abortions. They found the American dream! Think about the way Delay portrays himself in the public forum.

Now Tom Delay, in a speech on New Year's Eve a couple of years ago, praised the owner's of these sweat shops as American entrepreneurs with the values that America could be proud of. This has been going on since 1995. Clinton, at the time, tried to offer protections for these women through legislation. The legislation passed in the Senate but was blocked in Congress by none other than Tom Delay. When there was a threat to these guys through this legislation Tom Delay promised it would not make it through Congress and they had nothing to worry about.

This from Tom Delay the Bible thumper who interfered in the Terri Schiavo case and consistently wears his religion on his sleeve, his version of what he believes anyway. Talk about your Bible in one hand and your agenda in the other. The more this administration ends up having their colors exposed it comes up deep, dark BLACK!

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