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In the old Woody Allen joke, an elderly lady complains about the culinary offerings at a Catskills resort: “The food – terrible! And the portions – so small!”<\/p>\n

That’s what I was thinking when I read the excellent story in today’s Waterbury Republican-American <\/em>about the outsourcing of the manufacturing of World Wrestling Entertainment licensed merchandise. See “McMahon campaigns for more American jobs, but her toys are made in China,” http:\/\/rep-am.com\/news\/local\/483687.txt<\/a>. (The full text is available only to subscribers, but the website teaser offers a good taste.)<\/p>\n

Like the Manchester Journal Inquirer<\/em>‘s Don Michak in an article last week about WWE’s corporate tax breaks – which helped produce windfall stock dividends for the McMahon family even as they were trimming the staff at corporate headquarters in Stamford – the Republican-American<\/em>‘s Paul Hughes isn’t wasting time trying to deconstruct raunchy TV programming or nail Linda McMahon for the completely in-character name of her husband Vince’s yacht.<\/p>\n

Instead, Hughes is raising a classic question suggested by the business background underpinning her candidacy: If WWE is such a job-creation machine, then what are the jobs and what is the quality of those jobs?<\/p>\n

A further step would involve examining WWE’s employment onstage as well as offstage. Oh, but excuse me. I forgot that pro wrestlers are not employees. They are independent contractors<\/em>. I guess that makes it OK that these “assets” drop dead in horrifying numbers caused by profiteering occupational health and safety standards – sometimes before and sometimes after their “intellectual property,” as measured by toys made in Chinese sweatshops, is exhausted.<\/p>\n

It’s good to see at least a few Connecticut journalists hitting their stride in the coverage of the McMahon campaign.<\/p>\n

Irv Muchnick<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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