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To: No Blue States

Buy your cheap Chinese goods. What you save on the purchase you lose on attrition. I knew Sam Walton and the WalMart of today was not his vision, it is his nightmare.

I'm not whining so go spend your money how you like. I miss Small Town America but WalMart didn't kill it alone. I'll spend more for a superior product every time. If you own an American Flag where was it made?


24 posted on 06/02/2004 7:52:02 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Everything that really matters I learned from a song when I was 3. Jesus Loves Me!)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
"Buy your cheap Chinese goods....I'm not whining so go spend your money how you like.....If you own an American Flag where was it made?"

Walmart has American goods also. Some of very high quality, imagine that.

And I need not your permission to spend my money as I like. But you knew already that.

I do not believe in the VWC (vast walmart conspiracy), and buy no flag that wasnt made in the USA.

Walmart bashers have communist tendencies.

40 posted on 06/02/2004 8:18:08 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Tell me what products you buy that are made in America?


64 posted on 06/02/2004 8:43:21 AM PDT by 7thson (I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

"If you own an American Flag where was it made?"

Funny that you asked that...I did a considerable amount of shopping before and throughout the Memorial Holiday weekend. I looked at many American flags on display for sale in several different stores....ALL of them were "made in the US".


117 posted on 06/02/2004 10:30:05 AM PDT by OldBlondBabe
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Having worked for some time in a clothing-related industry when I was in high school, I learned at a fairly young age that the label "Made in the USA" is largely meaningless. There are two reasons for this:

1. Just last week, there was an article posted here about sweatshops in U.S. possessions in the South Pacific (Saipan, Guam, etc.) that only exist to provide textiles for sale in the U.S. The people who work in these sweatshops are no better off than those who work in China or Mexico, but because the factory where they work their 16-hour shifts for 25 cents an hour is in a "U.S. possession," the manufacturer who produces these goods can put a "Made in the USA" tag on their garments just to fool an American buyer who thinks he's keeping a South Carolina textile mill open.

2. Tags that identify the nation of origin of a product usually only identify the point of final assembly. A jacket that is 95% made in China is still considered "Made in the USA" if the buttons are sewn onto it here in the U.S.

121 posted on 06/02/2004 10:38:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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