Apples & oranges. Pro-business and advancing capitalism and a free market, yes. Clinging to antiquated, stupid trade deals at the expense of the middle-class and the American worker, NO! Promoting illegal immigration by employing illegals at the expense of the wages of the American worker, NO!
Hunter wants to remove the tax burden from American manufacturers to make them competitive. That sounds pro- business to me. Negotiating is a big part of business and I don’t see how wanting to negotiate a new deal is Marxist?
Like I said, apples & oranges. We have to make distinctions between business and modern-day robber-barons. I think by big business most Hunter supporters are referring to a parasitic Wall St. consumed by greed. I took note that when you call the help line for many of the companies you mentioned you can’t understand a damn word they are saying. Can you guess why? I would also disagree that WalMart is this great business that you have described it as. Walmart just managed to create some low-paying service jobs here for high-paying manufacturing jobs that went overseas. In the process, a lot of small towns lost a lot of their character and charm and small businesses fell one by one. Of course, that is the nature of business so I can’t fault WalMart for Mom & Pops not being able to compete, but I am surely not convinced it is altogether a good thing.
I save thousands of dollars shopping at Wal-mart and 100 million customers a week also are saving big. That helps the economy because this is like a huge tax cut because consumers can use the money they saved at Wal-mart to spend money buying products and services from other businesses small and large.
Anyone whose stocks rose in the late 1990s owes Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest company. It alone accounted for as much as 25% of the U.S. productivity gains from 1995-99, says consultant McKinsey & Co. Such gains drove corporate profits, thus stock prices.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm