Heinz: Made in Mexico...

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Heinz: Made in Mexico...
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Fri, 08-13-2004 - 7:21pm
Ever 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, President Bush has not moved one factory out of this country, since 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 Kerry's 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. 80% of Heinz products are made overseas. 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.
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Registered: 08-07-2004
Fri, 08-13-2004 - 7:52pm
If you want to sell ketchup, or a local variation of it in a foriegn county. It makes sense to use local tomatoes, and local labor to sell locally.

Outsourcing is about taking American labor jobs away from our economy & moving the production overseas after it had been established here. That's not what the republican Senator Heinz did. He built plants all over the world because that's how he wanted to make food products for foreign markets.

Even if these allegations were true, and they are not, they really have nothing to do with Kerry. The Heinz Co. was built up by Senator Heinz, a republican, and Kerry has no control over it.

Teresa Heinz Kerry only owns about 4% of the stock in Heinz, and she is not involved in the management or operations of it.

Really, are you just terribly uninformed, or are you purposely posting false stories???

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Registered: 03-30-2004
Fri, 08-13-2004 - 8:06pm
My guess is she is uninformed and a partisan Republican.

To be honest, the facts you gave about the Heinz company I didn't know either.

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Registered: 05-27-2003
Fri, 08-13-2004 - 10:56pm
Senator Kerry has nothing to do with the running of the Heinz company. Nor does his wife. Get real.