WHY STEVE JOBS?

Fats Limbaugh has spoken well of Jobs over the past few months and because Fats is not a techie, I wondered if he might be doing so because he approves of some of Jobs' political opinions. It turns out that Jobs was strongly against teachers unions and so is Fats. Fats also likes the fact that Apple uses FOXCONN as a manufacturer:

They have 230,000 employees in one factory. They work six days a week, 12 hours a day. They earn the equivalent of 17 US dollars a day, and they are plum jobs in China. ... The one thing that is not mentioned in this whole story is unions. Of course there aren't any in China. ... It just can't happen, not the way things are currently structured in America. These circumstances I described: 60,000 living at the factory, within a block? Not gonna happen here. Hence jobs Americans won't do anymore.

Here's a little more about the labor practices at FOXCONN:

Foxconn chairman compares his workforce to ‘animals’

By Hana Stewart-Smith | January 20, 2012, 3:43am PST
ZDNet

Summary: In an ill-worded statement, the chairman of Foxconn’s parent company compared his workforce to ‘animals’ and sought management advice from the director of Taipei Zoo.

“Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache,” said Terry Gou, chairman of Taiwan’s Hon Hai, the parent company of Foxconn.

I guess Fats wants Americans to work 12-hour days, live in dorms, and make less than $1.50 an hour.