In Reply to: Re: Bad news coming posted by Philby on 15 December 2001 at 04:44:58:
: Stan,
: America banned physical enslavement, but economic slavery is alive and well. In the early part of the 20th century, it was embodied by the company town, with its own store, housing, doctors and so forth.
: Today, we call it EPP, IBM Mortgage Option, IBM HMO, and so forth. It a more "humane" form of enslavement of the masses of misled young professionals. Fortunately, we have laws like OSHA and White Slavery in both the US and the UK to avoid IBM doing what they have done in China, Thailand and India. There they force the employees into company barracks with squalid conditions. I have pictures of the new China facility that when published will irreparably hurt the image of a "gentle" IBM.
: On the topic of Chinese.....I hear the bobbies and the US feds are asking questions about the Sze-Chuan company called Hua-Wei? Maybe massa Lou has forgotten his loyalty to his country?
: Bow to Massa Gerstner.......or Massa Rhett Riciardi will banish you from the town!
: Philby
Fiddle-lee-dee, Philby. They are just northern yankees after all.