THE REPUBLICAN UTOPIAN PARADISE EXISTS: ITS CALLED SAIPAN

There is a place in the western pacific ocean where there is low taxes and low regulation. It is a place where there is no such things as unions, minimum wage, benefits, and human rights.

It is a place regarded as a model of American free market capitalism by such convicted criminals such as Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff.

Its called Saipan.

Saipan is the largest island in a chain of fifteen islands known as the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. It is the home of a $1 billion garment industry (Tommy Hilfiger USA, Gap, Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne, etc.)

Thousands of garment workers live in shacks, and work up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, and earn only $3.05 an hour or less, often without overtime pay.

In the last five years, contractors in Saipan have received more than 1,000 citations for violating U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards.

Yet, the clothes these workers sew carry labels that say “Made in the U.S.A.”

THIS IS WHAT THE LIBERTARIAN REPUBLICANS WANT TO BRING TO THE AMERICAN MAINLAND. THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT TO TURN OUR COUNTRY INTO.