$50 for a light bulb?
Canuck57 wrote:
On 17/05/2011 4:02 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote:
On May 17, 5:57 pm, wrote:
On 17/05/2011 2:25 PM, *e#c wrote:
On May 17, 2:09 pm, wrote:
**** you Al Gore you hypocritical piece of ****...
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Team Rowdy Mouse, Banned from the Mall for life!
Are you ranting about HAVING to use one of those new style, over-
priced-mercury-filled power-savers?
Yep, fleabagger greenies botched that good. What is better in city
dumps, mercury or tungsten?
Meanwhile Chinese did the real green thing, now inexpensive LED types
are coming to the market and they make the mercury ones look
inefficient. Last longer too. Chinese made of course and without
excessive carbon taxes.
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Take a look at ANY country, more debt is more problems. So why do we
allow our governments more debt? Selfishness, greed, denial, ignorance?
And yet, the pricetag will be about $50 for one ****ing bulb. Clinton
and Gore sold this country to China for a few million in late, dirty
election money, lock stock and barrel...
The Gore variety perhaps.
But in Canada they are starting to show up in 3 packs for $16. LEDs are
not cheaper than mercury yet, but getting there. But then again, I bet
the Chinese don't have political, executive or union corruption that
comes with the bulbs.
And once again, you prove you don't know **** from shoepolish about
China or much else.
Another slave labor factory uncovered in Guangdong
Fourteen workers, including some with mental disabilities, were rescued
by local government officials from a brick factory in southern Guangdong
in mid-May after their plight was reported in the Guangzhou Daily.
The workers, some as young as 15, had been tricked or even kidnapped by
labor traffickers and sold to the brick factory operator for just 400
yuan. They were forced to work 15 hours a day and beaten by thugs if
they tried to escape. One worker told the newspaper that they were paid
just five yuan for three months work.
This was the second slave labour case to be exposed in the region in the
last three months, and local officials from Lilin township said they
were investigating another dozen or so brick factories. Previous cases
of slave labour in China have tended to be in relatively remote
locations but Lilin is only about 50 kilometres from downtown Shenzhen.
The news provoked outrage on social media sites, with netizens
questioning why the factory had been able to operate under the noses of
local officials for eight years and why, even after the case was
exposed, the boss and his gang of thugs had not been arrested.
The owner of a factory in Xinjiang, who used a group of mentally
disabled people as slave labor for more than four years was sentenced to
four and half years in prison on 30 April for a range of criminal
offences, including forced labor and covering up a death. In September
last year, one of the factory workers died after falling into a machine
at the building materials plant in Toksun county. The factory owner, Li
Xinglin, buried the body and did not report the death to the authorities.
From China Labour Bulletin
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