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To: SengirV
Great thinking there. Lets have one hundred $10 workers sell sweat shop items made overseas so that 1000+ skilled American workers can lose their jobs. Super strategy.

The purpose of buying clothes is to be clothed, not to employ Americans in South Carolina doing "skilled" work. I am as interested in what they do for a living as they are in my career. If the shirt fits, looks good, is decent quality, at a good price, I'll buy it. That's my clothing strategy, which works fine. As for world economics and the retail and textile industries as a whole, it's not for me to say. I have no expertise and nothing to do with it.

99 posted on 06/02/2004 9:53:57 AM PDT by Huck (The corporation I work for spends big bucks each year on taglines.)
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To: Huck
The purpose of buying clothes is to be clothed, not to employ Americans in South Carolina doing "skilled" work. I am as interested in what they do for a living as they are in my career. If the shirt fits, looks good, is decent quality, at a good price, I'll buy it. That's my clothing strategy, which works fine. As for world economics and the retail and textile industries as a whole, it's not for me to say. I have no expertise and nothing to do with it.

Given this self indulgent stance towards purchasing, I can really see you as one of those mouth breathers who frequent Walmart. I hope, for your sake, that your job is not producing widgets, of which there is a cheap knockoff available at Walmart. Becasue the vast unwashed(yourself included) will not think twice about purchasing the Chinese widget over yours and thus cost you your job. At least I will look to buy your widget if it is at least "competative" with the Chinese knockoff.

112 posted on 06/02/2004 10:19:58 AM PDT by SengirV
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