{"id":740,"date":"2007-11-07T19:29:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-11-07T19:29:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:29:32","slug":"11707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"11\/7\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a phone-in \u00a0interview with MCAM TV<\/em> in Manchester, New Hampshire, this week, I was asked my take on outsourcing of jobs overseas. \u00a0 I said the burden for this, for the most part, \u00a0falls sqarely on the shoulders of the American consumers. \u00a0 That is, because we’ve become addicted to cheap, foreign-made \u00a0products sold at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target…, we are, in a very real sense, subsidizing the outsourcing. \u00a0 What’s more, our subsidization is perpetuating sweat shop conditions and pay in other countries worldwide. \u00a0 As an example, on a research trip to Juarez, Mexico, we learned workers in multi-national plants there were making $3 a shift<\/em> — and 200,000 people were living in abject poverty as a result. Our consumer choices are moral choices, whether we have spiritual leadership telling this, or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a phone-in \u00a0interview with MCAM TV in Manchester, New Hampshire, this week, I was asked my take on outsourcing of jobs overseas. \u00a0 I said the burden for this, for the most part, \u00a0falls sqarely on the shoulders of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}