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Skriven 2006-09-28 19:10:00 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Sean Dennis
Ärende: Pat Buchanan
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Sean Dennis wrote:

SD>Bob Ackley wrote in a message to Gary Braswell:

SD> BA> I don't shop at Wal-Mart, period.  Won't even go in one.  Unlike
SD> BA> a large  number of the population, I will not support the
SD> BA> People's Liberation Army, which is one of Wal-Mart's biggest
SD> BA> suppliers.

SD>It's funny you should mention the PLA.  I worked for Wal-Mart twice
SD>in my life.  The first time, I was made a scapegoat for over $10,000
SD>worth of frozen food spoiling.  It wasn't my fault, but my boss and
SD>the overnight manager were buddy-buddy (in more than one way, I found
SD>out later!).  So, I just walked out.  They never did find out why
SD>that food spoiled.

SD>Later, in desperation, I re-applied there.  I was told that until I
SD>was "loyal to Wal-Mart in every way", I was only a temporary.  That
SD>was just completely creepy to me, so I never showed up again to that
SD>store.

SD>It's that and the constant harassment by management to employees
SD>(sexual and otherwise) that I didn't like.  You were always forced to
SD>stay late, you had to do a lot of other people's work in other
SD>departments and generally, it was crap pay.  I can't see wher $7.50
SD>an hour is a "living wage" (according to Wal-Mart's propaganda
SD>machine).

SD> BA> Those who say that Wal-Mart doesn't hurt local businesses
SD> BA> haven't been to small towns with the devastated downtown
SD> BA> districts and the huge Wal-Mart out on the edge of town.  About
SD> BA> the only outfit that seems to be able to compete with Wal-Mart
SD> BA> is Dollar General, if you want *really* low prices try them -
SD> BA> but most of their stuff, especially clothes, is junk. 

SD>You know, I know of several places that have successfully repelled
SD>Wal-Mart and that have thrived.  As for Wal-Mart selling junk, yeah,
SD>it's all made in China. 

It's _NOT_ "all made in China". As for being "made in China" I'm sitting 
here wearing a blouse made in China - I bought it at the Navy Exchange. 
The US Navy exchange. Everybody sells stuff made in China.

When I was a teenager (less than 20 years after the end of WWII) the 
"code phrase" for something being cheap (cheap, not inexpensive there IS 
a difference) was "made in Japan". Seeing as how they have become world 
leaders in manufacturing electronics and cars it can't be assumed that 
made in China equates to cheap. If it's their politics you have problems 
with look at it this way the USSR failed Vietnam failed China will fail 
unless they find themselves leaning ever more towards doing things Hong 
Kong's way. The Chinese of today are not who they were at the time of 
the student protest in Tianimen (sp?) Square. It took USSR 72 years to 
fail, it took Vietnam less than 20, China won't last much longer as a 
"communist" state.

L'Chaim

Mimi

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