(This was emailed to me today)
Heinz Products
>
> I checked and my bottle of Heinz catsup says "Product of Canada"!
> Guess I'll be checking out all the Heinz products at the store!
> Shortly after reading the following e-mail content, I happened to 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, Bush has not moved one factory out of this country because
> 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
> Kerrys 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.
> 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.
