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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-04-07 05:06 PM
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6. sorry, disagree with you. most of my friends are very much the same way--we make SURE we don't buy
sweatshop goods, etc. it isn't THAT hard, one just has to care, and many people DO care. I have been doing this for over 40 years, so I can assure you, it isn't that hard.
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  -Face it. All of us are slaveowners. leftofthedial  Mar-04-07 04:58 PM   #0 
  - sorry, but some of us work hard to make certain we DON"T enable the sweatshops, or non-union shops,  niyad   Mar-04-07 04:59 PM   #1 
  - Unfortunately, you're in a very small minority  ElizabethDC   Mar-04-07 05:01 PM   #3 
  - sorry, disagree with you. most of my friends are very much the same way--we make SURE we don't buy  niyad   Mar-04-07 05:06 PM   #6 
     - "One just has to care." Yup, exactly.  Fierce   Mar-04-07 05:13 PM   #12 
     - But most people just don't care about the issue that much b/c they aren't educated about it  ElizabethDC   Mar-04-07 05:18 PM   #14 
        - Like what?  Fierce   Mar-04-07 05:30 PM   #21 
     - But it's far from being the norm  ElizabethDC   Mar-04-07 05:15 PM   #13 
     - but you pay taxes for the war effort  sweetheart   Mar-04-07 07:22 PM   #33 
  - I don't know where to get shoes that my feet  roody   Mar-04-07 05:12 PM   #9 
  - Why? Are they big, or oddly shaped?  Fierce   Mar-04-07 05:30 PM   #22 
     - It has come down to only  roody   Mar-04-07 05:37 PM   #24 
        - How annoying.  Fierce   Mar-04-07 05:39 PM   #25 
        - Yeah. People need to stop whining about their personal physical  kestrel91316   Mar-04-07 06:04 PM   #27 
           - Um?  Fierce   Mar-04-07 06:06 PM   #29 
              - I took your post #25 as a snarky, uncharitable response to #24.  kestrel91316   Mar-04-07 06:58 PM   #31 
                 - Nope.  Fierce   Mar-04-07 07:07 PM   #32 
                    - Gotta love the internet. Those tubes just garble up those subtle  kestrel91316   Mar-04-07 08:11 PM   #35 
        - Try Finn Comforts, Made in Germany  Mr. Ected   Mar-04-07 08:26 PM   #38 
           - Will definitely check it out.  roody   Mar-04-07 08:38 PM   #40 
  - Well, while I do the same with diligence, I have to agree that we all share ...  TahitiNut   Mar-04-07 05:21 PM   #17 
     - I don't want this crap imported, but when did anybody start caring  kestrel91316   Mar-04-07 06:06 PM   #28 
  - Yah that's the same thing. You gotta give credit to how hard white folks work...  BlooInBloo   Mar-04-07 05:00 PM   #2 
  - and how hard some folks work not reading  leftofthedial   Mar-04-07 05:24 PM   #18 
  - i don't buy "doohickeys," nikes, or beer  pitohui   Mar-04-07 05:03 PM   #4 
  - the last of the self-sufficient rugged individualist survivalists!  leftofthedial   Mar-04-07 05:25 PM   #19 
  - I don't either.  cali   Mar-04-07 05:30 PM   #20 
  - You own a computer, don't you?  yibbehobba   Mar-04-07 08:23 PM   #37 
  - I don't buy that crap.  Fierce   Mar-04-07 05:04 PM   #5 
  - Funny, when my mother and my aunt worked in textiles  Jamastiene   Mar-04-07 05:06 PM   #7 
  - Textile factories that were once based in the USA,  quantessd   Mar-04-07 08:19 PM   #36 
  - I make my own beer.  Hunky Dunky   Mar-04-07 05:07 PM   #8 
  - Absurd!  quinnox   Mar-04-07 05:12 PM   #10 
  - So do I  Mick Knox   Mar-04-07 05:21 PM   #16 
     - Meat is murder. Didn't you get the memo?  kestrel91316   Mar-04-07 06:08 PM   #30 
  - Sigh.  PDJane   Mar-04-07 05:13 PM   #11 
  - Interesting.  Buzz Clik   Mar-04-07 05:19 PM   #15 
  - *groan* Going for the guilt vote again?  Little Wing   Mar-04-07 05:30 PM   #23 
  - Do goods made in China purchased in 2nd hand stores  La Coliniere   Mar-04-07 05:52 PM   #26 
  - I just poured myself a cup of Fair Trade Coffee  Tierra_y_Libertad   Mar-04-07 07:29 PM   #34 
  - That means Steven Spielberg stole that painting too.  HypnoToad   Mar-04-07 08:35 PM   #39 
  - Maybe you are, but I'm not. n/t  BlackVelvet04   Mar-04-07 08:40 PM   #41 
  - I never buy Nikes  The Gunslinger   Mar-04-07 08:45 PM   #42 
  - Not every NB is made in USA...  Fierce   Mar-05-07 06:59 AM   #45 
  - I sold mine and bought slave neutral credits. I'm clean.  seriousstan   Mar-04-07 10:59 PM   #43 
  - LOL  leftofthedial   Mar-05-07 01:44 AM   #44 
  - Nope  cgrindley   Mar-05-07 07:00 AM   #46 
 

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