By Ramona Emerson, Huffington Post
Jon Stewart has another name for Foxconn, the notorious Chinese gadget manufacturer and Apple supplier: the Fear Factory.
After pointing out that GOP presidential candidates said they promised to create jobs in America and entice innovators like Steve Jobs to keep their factories in the U.S., Stewart took a good long look at Foxconn and the working conditions at the manufacturing plant.
"If we want to compete with China, we've got to make our factories look a lot more like Foxconn," he said…But after seeing clips from a June 1, 2010 CNN report, in which the harsh realities of life at Foxconn are revealed, Stewart quickly changes his tune. According to the segment, Foxconn employees work up to 35 hours at a stretch for $.31 an hour. If they try to form a union they could get 12 years in prison, which Stewart points out wouldn't be much of a difference from life at the factory where workers live in 8-person dormitories.
"This is an abomination and yet I am complicit," admitted Stewart, who goes on to say he must abandon his gadgets. (Full article here)
