US still has slavery

[billcoe]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-14/human-trafficking-report-ranks-us-world-countries?cid=hp:mainpromo6

 

"For the past 10 years, the State Department has issued annual reports on human trafficking worldwide, ranking most of the world’s countries on a scale of 1 to 3. But one major country was always left out: the United States. This year, in a sign of the Obama administration’s more humble approach to foreign affairs, the U.S. has subjected itself to some of the same scrutiny it applies to other countries. The report, which comes out Monday, makes it clear that almost 150 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in America."

 

Blah blah, report says we're still doing better than most. Thought you'd want to know. We should legalize/decriminalize prostitution.

[Off_White]

A year or two ago National Geographic had a great article on slavery in the modern world, including the US. Yes, we're not the worst by a long shot, but it does exist here, which I imagine was a little shocking to many of their readers. That article is worth seeking out.

[ivan]

it's called minimum wage?

[G-spotter]

Now freedom must be fundamental,

In Johannesburg, or South Central?

[prole]

it's called minimum wage?

 

The minimum wage and other such big government interventions are exactly what keep us from being truly free.

[LostCamKenny]

don't go into the bars in downtown portland - you might get shanghi'ed!

[powderhound]

don't go into the bars in downtown portland - you might get shanghi'ed!

 

 

those tunnles are sick! very ghostly! something every pdx'er should go see

[kevbone]

We should legalize/decriminalize prostitution.

 

I could not agree more. Same thing with all drugs.

[G-spotter]

We should legalize/decriminalize prostitution.

 

I could not agree more.

 

ya, then pink could pay you