Have you read "The Jungle" by, Louis Sinclair?

I thought that was Upton Sinclair?

I haven't read it - Republican

It was Upton Sinclair, not Louis Sinclair. And I read it up to the last four-five chapters. I was with him until he started spouting socialist dogma. At that point, I was disgusted with the book. Besides, my feelings are, if you don't like your job, or if you feel the job is too dangerous for the pay, quit. We live in the greatest country in the world, with more opportunities to find a rewarding job. Andrew Carnegie came here from Scotland with pocket change and ended up owning one of the biggest industrial companies in the world. Levi Strauss came to America with little more than a sewing machine and a few surplus ships sails and made a fortune.

This book describes the extremely undesirable conditions in food processing facilities around the turn of the Twentieth Century.

It describes what happens when there is not adequate regulation of industry, and how it affects us all, even if we don't work there.

Today, it is a description of what is happening in foreign factories and sweatshops. We are returning to these days, not because our government is not regulating, but because free trade is allowing greedy businesses to move their workplaces out of the USA to other places that have the same lack of regulation as we had here 100 years ago.

Free trade is setting back our quality of life by 100 years. And it is impossible for US workers to compete, because foreign factories have the unfair advantage of having lower production costs because they do not provide the same level of workplace safety, environmental protection, and consumer protections. Those protections cost money, and U.S. factories are being thrown into global competition with one arm tied behind their backs.

It is not legitimate to say "Well, U.S. businesses will have to get that much more competitive." That's dodging the issue, which is that free trade costs jobs by forcing U.S. workers to compete on an uneven playing field.

I voted for Obama, but I no longer belong to any political party. I refuse to be associated with criminal organizations.

No but I read a summary about it pretty disgusting or as we say in Sweden, forskracklig! Also its Upton Sinclair. I read they would find rats and just throw them into the meat. Yuck!

That would be Upton Sinclair, and his views were from a 1906 perspective.