Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, last Saturday I went to Nicaragua with the National Labor Committee and visited workers in a neighborhood called Tipitapa. These workers work in a Taiwanese-owned company, Chentex. They sew blue jeans. They make 21 cents for every pair of blue jeans that is sold for $24 in Wal-Mart, in Kohl's, in K-Mart in the United States. These workers asked for a 13-cents-per-pair-of-jeans raise. Summarily, the union leaders and the workers were fired by this company. These workers work about 60 or 70 hours a week and are paid about $30 or $40 a week for their work. They do not share in the wealth they create for their employer. They cannot buy the clothes, the products that they make. General Motors workers in Mexico cannot buy the automobiles they make because they are not paid enough. Disney workers in Haiti cannot buy the toys they make because they are not paid enough. Nike workers in Indonesia cannot buy the shoes they make because they are not paid enough. The textile workers in Nicaragua cannot buy the jeans they make because they are not paid enough. And Nike workers in China cannot buy any of the Nikes that they make, they cannot buy the shoes, because they are not paid enough.”