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Make the Clothes in the USA

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Today Gap Inc. is lamenting in the press their shame and disappointment that one of its Indian vendors used an “unauthorized” subcontract who, in turn, used child labor to produce clothing for Gap clothing stores.

They say they have fired the Indian company.

Here’s an idea” make the clothes in the USA instead.

You get what you pay for, folks. If you are going to try and cut costs (and eliminate jobs for American workers) by hiring a cheapie Indian company, then you are going to risk that the work ethics of that country are going to enter into your equation. Is it really any surprise to any of the execs at The Gap that (gasp!) India has sweatshops?

What kind of numbingly brainless people are running Gap Inc.?

“It’s deeply, deeply disturbing to all of us,” Gap President Marka Hansen said.

I’ll bet.

It’s disturbing now that your cost-cutting tactics have come back to bite you in the ass.

Hansen is busing passing the proverbial buck, blaming his vendors and their sub-vendors. I don’t hear him taking any of the blame for making poor business decisions, though. If The Gap would employ American workers in American factories located IN America, the standards American consumers expect could be better regulated.

Keep in mind that The Gap also operates Banana Republic and Old Navy stores when you are out doing your shopping. This is just one more reason to seek out product Made in the USA.

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