Hello, I've given myself a crash update reading on H.O.P.E. or H.6142 introduced by Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Ca #22). Last I knew this was a sweat shop owners' bill with nothing to regulate the treatment of workers. Business is not just business. It is or isn't the means that workers achieve dignity. My grandfather died at age 45 in Barre, Vermont back in the 1920's because the owners of granite "sheds" wouldn't provide exhaust suctions to remove razor sharp granite dust that was cutting up workers' lungs and creating an epidemic of "silicosis". It took a long struggle, the usual "blaming the victim/worker", a few strikes with police beating people in the streets before things were improved. Getting cheap cloth into Haitian sweatshop owners' hands may create jobs that have disappeared of late, but how will the workers fare? There is a sweat shop bill in congress, S.3485 by Sen. Dorgan and HR 5635 by Rep. Sherrod Brown. Jobs with dignity has to be our campaign if we're really concerned with the majority of Haitians.