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EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. -- This suburb, contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African-American. One of whom, a woman pushing a shopping cart with a stoical 3-year-old along for the ride, has a chip on her shoulder about the size of this 141,000 square- foot Wal-Mart. She applied for a job when the store opened in January and was turned down because, she said, the person...

Is Walmart a beautiful example of unfettered capitalism or really a joint venture with the Chinese government based on an artificially devalued currency that crushes the competition. Is Elizabeth Dole a communist for trying to do something about the Yuan? http://dole.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=354&Month=2&Year=2005 Should you care that Walmart is the 8th leading trading partner with China, a communist regime that bans all religions including Christianity? Does it matter that we depend on China and the Saudi Royals? Are cheap products the be all end all? What about moral values? Do costs to taxpayers for WalMart employees? http://timwest.blogs.com/the_new_libertarian/2005/01/what_walmart_co.html http://www.wal-martchina.com/english/index.htm http://en.ce.cn/subject/RetailinginChina/Developmenttrend/200411/26/t20041126_2433136.shtml