The First Ever Walmart (1962)

LOLWOT ^ | 1-2-2015

[central_va]

End result you have a nation with billion dollar trade deficits and a dwindling middle class.

But what about the superior quality of Chinese made products? < /sarc >

[central_va]

A real shame we don’t make much stuff anymore....Thank the Unions (Look for the Union Label).

Manufacturing has a real low union participation rate. Something like 10%.

[central_va]

It was probably already too late to reverse the larger economic patterns.

A real country would have slapped tariffs on the Chinese crap in a NY minute. But our politicians were purchased early on with ChiCom money(bribes).

[ThomasThomas]

Haven’t you heard about time travelers? Like the guy in the really old photo talking on a cell phone. Well this time traveler drives a Subaru Outback.

If the guy was talking on a cell phone who was he talking to and where was the cell tower they were using?

[faithhopecharity]

A famous Californicate politico observed that “ We have the best government money can buy!” (Jesse Unruh, who incidentally was the guy who Reagan had to beat to become governor in 1970).

[Vaduz]

Thanks did the same at woolworth stores good time gone.

[Bryanw92]

>>If the guy was talking on a cell phone who was he talking to and where was the cell tower they were using?

It wasn’t a cell phone. It was a Star Fleet communicator and he was talking to the starship in orbit.

[Last Dakotan]

The only thing that can create a "trade deficit” is foreign investment in America.

Who knew Chinese "investments" come by the boatload?

[Chickensoup]

Both Target and Kohls have better optics and better designers but the quality is terrible.

I am not even sure that younger people understand good quality anymore.

Not many look at Pendleton, Woolrich, et al

Bought a Pendleton wool bathrobe a little while back. It will last forever and is WARM and well-made.

[shove_it]

Yup. Target does have nicer linoleum.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I didn’t say that foreigners might not earn the money they invest here via exports to us - but if we don’t pay for the imports, but we send an IOU instead, guess what - that is foreign investment in that American IOU.