Question by Chi Guy: Has anyone watched the show “30 Days” and have had a change in trajectory on a political stand because of it?
I viewed it for the first time last night. In the first show, a “minuteman” civilian border patrol guy was asked to live with a family of illegals for 30 days. During the last few days he went to Mexico to see where the family came from. I was heart broken when I saw the conditions they lived in. It was basically a 150 foot red brick enclosure with a tin roof and no running water for a family of five.
The second show I watched, a software programmer’s job was outsourced to India and he was pissed about it. So they sent him to live in India for 30 Days and work at a telemarketing center. A supervisor there had five family members, counting himself, sleeping four to one bed while he slept on the floor next to it. I was amazed and appalled at the poverty that was their daily lives over there.
Has anyone here seen any episodes of this show? If so did it have an impact on you?
Also, by seeing how the workers in India live 5 people to one room, it proves what I have said all along that simply cutting corporate taxes would not even put a dent in the disparity between what a US worker requires for pay vs a worker in countries such as India.
Unless US workers are willing to live five people per 300 square foot home without a toilet.
Paul (below) Yaw. People don’t “hate America” because they are poor. The hate America for propping up dictators in their regions. You know, like Reagan did with Saddam Hussein.
No Pinheads (below) Agreed, to a point. However, those conditions are unimaginable in the 21st century.
Why do you refuse to watch it again?
bmovies6… (below) Great twist on my words. Now try being honest about what I stated above for once.
You canNOT make up the disparity in PAY and BENEFITS that are required by US workers in comparison to 3rd world country workers with tax cuts. That is a simple FACT regardless of opinion.
The government would have to pay US workers 75% of their salary and benefits to equalize the difference. UNLESS US workers were willing to live in abject poverty and earn $ 5 per day.
Locutus 2of1 (below) Welcome back
Thanks for PROVING MY POINT!
US corporations have done and continue to do just that. Yet somehow you state that it is ME that wants to do it. Do you listen to yourself BEFORE going after me?
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Answer by Dave
You could find those same conditions here in the United States. I am betting 30 days will not bother to look though.
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