[janetgreen]

Although American consumers may benefit via low-low prices at Wal-Mart, their gains may be more than outweighed by large losses sustained by laid-off American workers.

The many now-bankrupt American workers who lost their jobs and their homes can attest to this fact as they're struggling to pay their bills.

I don't hear much concern for American workers in Washington, they're too busy importing more foreigners to do American jobs.

[TopQuark]

Thank you for posting socialist propaganda on this conservative forum. What do you think makes you conservative, Janet?

The many now-bankrupt American workers who lost their jobs and their homes can attest to this fact as they're struggling to pay their bills.

How many, Janet? The unemployment is at 5.3%, which until a few years ago was considered MINIMAL possible even theoretically. It was 5.4% when Clinton was elected the second time --- and everybody feels great about the economy of the nineties. I don't hear much concern for American workers in Washington,

This very much may be true --- are you deaf? Bush repeatedly talked about it education, training and other programs. You don't hear it because you don't want to hear: education presupposed that the workers will do the learning instead of Saturday trips to the mall. Apparently, that is what you want: the government protecting the jobs, as they are. You've missed your opportunity for happiness: the Soviet Union, where that was implemented full, has collapsed.