Gunny
Gold Member
Do you think labor laws were at one point necessary in the u.s. to curtail mandatory 16 hour days and child labor? Were they "right" in your view? Or was it socialism to stop children from working in factories?
An interesting question. One that no matter the answer, requires ideological compromise.
We needed labor laws in the US because of unscrupulous and exploitive business owners. I would have NO problem with legislation that required US-owned businesses to adhere to US labor laws regardless what physical location they set up shop in.
Your average pro-capitalism type will call it socialism, but I call it having common sense and some morality. There really should be no need for such laws at all; however, unscupulous people have proven themselves unworthy of such a responsibility.
At the same time, I do not beleive it is up to us to tell other Nations how to run their internal business so long as it does not pose a threat to our security or the security of our allies.
In this forinstance, I am unsure of the exact relationship between the US and a US "territory," what type of local government there is, and how US laws are applicable.