I'm not the biggest Wal-Mart fan, but foreign hatred of them such as this--based primarily on its "Americanism"--makes me want to shop there on principle.
It's from Palast. Not good enough to print for toilet paper.
Thank you for finding and posting this.
It will take all we can get come 2008.
proves even the evil left, can goof and write something worth reading.
Since Walmart is the #1 store in this area, I won't comment on the Made in USA, wish I could do so.
Wow, I just picked up on something else.
See this:
>>> But among its suppliers is Shantou Garment Trading Company, based in Guandong Province.
What on earth is Guandong Province?
This area made an entire section of my newspaper back in 2001 covering about HIV tainted blood. Villagers there sold their blood to make money, then most of the village was whiped out from HIV.
Then, while we were tracking the SARs threads, we just about pinned SARs to Guandong from that inspector that caught it there.
Now, this WalMart article is making reference to prison labor camps in Guandong.
A pretty horrid picture is being painted of this area.
I would be very skeptical about anything Palast writes. He is rabidly anti-business.
IF the people working for them are unhappy, then they should find other employment. After all: this is America you know. I realize that I may sound pro Wal-Mart, but in reality, I'm pro capitalist. The buying public is fully aware of all the foreign goods that they are buying from Wal-Mart, and still they line up in droves to purchase those goods.
If the American People didn't want the cheap goods, they wouldn't buy them. The problem is, that most Americans could care less where the goods come from, or who made them, as long as they are cheap.
And as far as Hillary being on the payroll of the company: That was simply a strategic business decision. Again not illegal
bttt