A businessman in the furniture business just arrived from China. He toured the associates that are the main furniture manufacturers for big name market such as Bob's furniture, Rottmans and Jordan's. The photo brought back showing children production furniture left me dumbfounded. Malnourished children being paid pennies a day. There were men also working who received five American dollars for their full 10 hour day of work.
If you were to sit at the piers placed in Boston Massachusetts, you will explore ship loads of packaging carrying furniture and will see these big name furniture dealers loading the furniture onto their marked trucks. Logos of their furniture market on the side of these trucks. I asked this businessman, a furniture store owner how the pricing for the furniture business was and this was his answer; " we purchase a queen size bed, two end tables, a chest and a dresser for 0 and we mark it up someone else 0. We sell it, they buy it, I make a 0 profit. " I then asked what the furniture was made of and his acknowledge was, " It is made out of @#$% but, the habitancy do not know this, they shop based on price." He explained that on his tour of these company's that build the furniture for these market and which are placed in both China and India, plant their own trees. Trees that grow huge in such a short period of time and which are put into a motor that shreds them up production some sort of cheap particle boards which is then used for the furniture being sold in the aforementioned stores.
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As a business man and a ability furniture constructor which does business with the trade, interior designers, architects and more, started to feel horrible while viewing the pictures of such scrawny, hungry children being forced to work for pennies a day. See, China is so over populated, jobs are scarce and whatever offered any type of work for what ever the price may be, takes the job in order to survive. Parents force their children out onto the street to work for such minute money without caring about that child's well being or bodily abilities to perform their duties.
We as Americans have become so selfish and uncaring that we help and encourage these country's to continue the slave trade of children, men and women so that we can have items that look great in order to make us feel great, no matter the cost. By supporting these stores, we are causing harm to habitancy that work hard like machines but, they are humans, not machines.
Our President and Government try to make us believes that in order for the cheaper to get best we must have foreign trade. This is not true. We are were we are today because of the lack of American business that went out of business because of the foreign trade. How can we compete against a day labor wages. It is no wonder that these big name businesses continue to grow despite the economic crises that we live today. It is time that we a known Americans stop supporting these associates and in this case the furniture associates that knowingly do business with these manufacturing associates placed in China and India.
I have pictures of children production furniture. Dirty, malnourished children, men and women. When we buy furniture from these stores, we need to think about how it is quite inherent that some young Chinese boy or girl dies of malnourishment while building that table which you will be so proud of as you receive compliments from friends when they come over. Think about it, was one human life worth the price of your marked up table, or bed?
Let us reserve American businesses. Let us bring back the very things that this nation was known for and was proud of. Do not buy from these companies. Please consider paying a bit more for ability and not the junk that habitancy are dying production in foreign countries.
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