Posted on 02/25/2005 10:33:51 AM PST by ambrose
Longview, Texas
The opposite has happened in the parts of Delaware and Maryland I am familiar with.
Additionally, new businesses keep springing up around them, which bring more jobs.
Wal-Mart may not be perfect, nor fit in everywhere, but there are some areas where they are good and they do fit in and add, rather than detract from the community.
LOL! You are bad!
Oh, nothing that dramatic, just friends who post here who were called a communist for even suggesting there might be questionable practices with Wal-Mart. I was really just teasing those that know who they are.
Ya, I see that sentiment around here.
What was your screen name before you were banned?
Why do you come back on FR and use barking moonbat leftist sites from UC Berserkly to support your arguments?
Why do you share positions with George Miller (one of the most liberal members of Congress) and quote bogus studies by his staff to support your arguments?
Were you fired by Walmart?
Why do you shop at Walmart if you think that doing so supports the government of China and is detrimental to our Armed Forces?
What else about you is bogus? Are you from D.U.?
I know ... I was just funnin ya.
Strange how the word Walmart brings everyone running.
Hey ... we all have a right to express our opinions in our own manner and as we percieve them to be. Some enlighten, some are enlightened and some remain unchanged.
We're Free Republic to change, unreasonably, to a censored site I'd be gone. And I don't care much which side is being censored.
With that said, Trolls need continual and exotic forms of Zotting, as long as the mods let us play with our food a while. ;)
Wal Mart - is killing the competition and soon we will pay their price because it will be the only price.
I agree completely. I mainly come to FR to learn and the humor is outrageous!
When you support:
RadioShack
Sears
Penneys
Target
and the list is way longer... you are supporting China, .
A chinese peasant somewhere gets a chance to buy a DVD player,because his factory makes thousands of them. He probably will buy pirated DVD's to play on it, but the original made it's owners a few million, so it isn't going to devastate the American economy, or the company...
Another peasant is able to buy a computer, and sign onto the internet. There, he starts reading about freedom and democracy. It is forbidden for him to visit these sites, but he is smitten with the idea that he can actually decide what he wishes for his child. He even finds that other countries don't force abortions, but do allow them... He sees others that can travel around his country, without first checking with the local communist officials... for permission.
Yeah, this idea of helping the chinese is really stupid! I don't want to aid the chinese military. I pray for the chinese people...
Shop at Wal-Mart...send them a message about freedom! A billion people, aching for freedom, can easily overcome the Communist militarists that threaten us...
You've got to be kidding????????
Wrong! There are health laws regarding used clothing. I have to handle this situation now and then at Wal Mart where I work.
Any undergarments used in any manner, are CLAIMED out and sent to never never land! This I know is a fact!
It is amazing how many women squeeze their butts into undergarments that are way too small.
They then come in for a complete no hassle refund after they soil, tear and ruin the undergarment. There is no profit for Wal Mart from these used undies etc.
Maybe things have changed then, I don't know. But it used to be that anything I saw there that was not food was made in China.
I hope that they have had a change of heart. I did enjoy going there. I'll have to check them out again as I haven't gone there to buy anyhthing in about 3 years.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there are not made in China products there, but I don't see any more of them in Wal-Mart than I do in the local 5&10, or any other retailer.
And those products were in the stores long before Wal-Mart was around.
I joked with my husband about the first thing I pulled out of one of the bags after we got home, it was a kitchen strainer, nothing out of the ordinary, but something I had been in need of. I said something along the lines of "hey, this wasn't made in China, it was made right here in the US...that is if you consider Bronx, NY part of the US." That I am from NYC and he knows I have family from the Bronx, he got my joke.
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