<VV> [VV-talk] Companies in other countries????? Check your Heinz...

[dongerick1@juno.com]

    This was forwarded to me and I thought that I would pass it along.
            Heinz products
> >>
> >>    I checked and my bottle of Heinz catsup says "Product of Canada"!
> >>    Guess I'll be checking out all the Heinz products at the store!
> >>    Shortly
> >>    after reading the following e-mail content, I happened to look at
> >>     the
> >>    label of a jar of Heinz sandwich slice pickles.
> >>    Yep...."Made in Mexico."
> >>
> >>    Check some of your Heinz products. Sen. John Kerry keeps talking
> >>    about
> >>    U.S.corporations leaving this country and setting up shop in
> >>    foreign
> >>    countries, taking thousands of jobs with them. He is right,
> >>    because that
> >>    has happened.
> >>
> >>    However, he is trying to blame it on George W.! Bush.
> >>
> >>    As far as I know, Bush has not moved one factory out of this
> >>     country
> >>    because he is not the owner of a single factory.
> >>
> >>    That cannot be said about Kerry and his wife,Teresa Heinz-Kerry.
> >>    According to the Wall Street Journal, the Kerrys own
> >>    32 factories in Europe and 18 in Asia and the Pacific.
> >>
> >>    In addition, their company, the Heinz Company, leases four
> >>    factories in
> >>    Europe and four in Asia. Also, they own 27 factories in North
> >>    America,
> >>    some of which are in Mexico and the Caribbean.
> >>
> >>    I wonder how many hundreds of American workers lost their jobs
when
> >>    these plants relocated in foreign countries?
> >>
> >>    I also wonder if the workers in Mexico and Asia are paid the same
> >>    wages
> >>    and ! benefits as workers in the United States.
> >>
> >>    Of course they're not. However, Kerry demands that other
companies
> >>     that
> >>    relocate should pay the same benefits they did in the U.S.
> >>
> >>    Why does he not demand this of the Heinz Company,
> >>    since he is married to the owner?
> >>
> >>    If Kerry is elected, will he and his wife close all those foreign
> >>    factories and bring all those jobs back to America?
> >>
> >>
> >>    Of course they won't.
> >>
> >>    They're making millions off that cheap labor.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE
> >>    THE FACTS!!
> >>

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