obama visited the nike factory in portland oregon, dumbass.
you're gonna be a fun little ball of anger to rile though.
No fucking shit smart guy. Why do you think he visited the Nike headquarters? It was to drum up support for the new TPP trade agreement. You know, why not visit the company that pays employees pennies, violates every employment law we have here, outsources nearly all their manufacturing, and devastates the environment of the "host countries". Then all he has to do is proclaim how wonderful this trade agreement is, and sell it to the American citizens.
See American people, I Barak obama claim that outsourcing American manufacturing jobs by paying kids in sweatshop conditions in Vietnam to produce shoes while making fifty cents an hour, 16 hours per day, is good for American workers. See it is now a race to the bottom. Now if all American manufactures paid American children 30 cents an hour the jobs would stay here domestically.
Of course choosing Nike had nothing to do with their 50 million dollar donation to Michelles fitness campaign.
This from a liberal organization;
"In a perverse way, the president going to Nike to promote trade emphasizes everything that is wrong about this trade agreement," said Lori Wallach of Public Citizen, a liberal group founded by activist Ralph Nader. "The firm, and its founder, created the model of low-cost, offshore production that has eviscerated the United States manufacturing base."
Never did I think I would agree with Sanders, but his statement is correct.
“If Nike can sell a pair of LeBron XII Elite iD shoes online for $320 in this country, it should be making these shoes and other products here, not in Vietnam or China,” he wrote. “It is no secret why Nike is supporting [the Trans-Pacific Partnership]. [It would] … increase the profits of Nike … but do nothing to encourage Nike to create one manufacturing job in this country.”
Yep, keep worshiping your savior, as he further hamstrings the American worker