With a nod to the Bangladeshi garment industry, President
Obama parlayed his surprise visit to the Bangladeshi Protectorate by giving a
surprise address today at Rana Plaza, the site where 1,129 workers were singed at their Singers including their
children in the building’s nursery facilities when the Savar building collapsed
in 2013.
The president spoke to a packed audience of appreciative
listeners selected from Business International
Incorporated, the newly reconstituted Nugan Hand Bank, and business leaders
from several international clothing manufacturing corporations including
Walmart, Joe Fresh, and the Children’s Place.
“We need to unite to lift our struggling economies by
finding new ways to outsource more labor, to guarantee subsistence wages, to
improve conditions in worker compounds and dormitories, to insure that pregnant
women have all the abortion help our forward looking health programs provide.
We need to provide more work sites that are safe enough to operate 24/7,
guaranteeing a full day off on Independence Day to commemorate worker independence.
“My fellow plutocrats and billionaires, I am here today to
guarantee that conditions of operations remain untainted by any government
controls, that your workers enjoy the same standard of living they have always
enjoyed, and that your facilities remain
as safe as they have always been.
“We have no time to lose. Propaganda the world over makes it
harder for people of good will like yourselves to pursue successful commercial
operations. We must defeat the forces of Evil, and work everyday to guarantee
the continued benefit of a healthy bottom line.”
For more information: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/09-2
and: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/09-7
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