Dear superiorslots,
Sorry, but even this anti-Wal-Mart article says that Wal-Mart accounts for one-eighth of China's imports to the United States.
Even this anti-Wal-Mart article states China's imports were $197 billion.
In the meanwhile, Wal-Mart had sales of $285 billion last year on a cost of goods sold of $220 billion.
You do the math.
I don't know what bet you had with Toddsterpatriot, and I don't really much care.
The article is poorly written in that it cites hard numbers that show that Wal-Mart gets about 11%, by dollar volume, of its products from China, but then insinuates that much larger amounts of Wal-Mart products are from China:
"Eighty percent of the more than 6,000 factories supplying Wal-Mart merchandise are located in China."
It is possible that that statistic is actually true, but irrelevant. And certainly, its insinuation is false.
This is a poorly-written rant that uses statistics in deceiving ways.
There are many arguments one might make against Wal-Mart. There is no reason to make deceptive arguments. The author of the article gets an "F," and only ruins the credibility of anti-Wal-Marters, especially in the minds of folks like me, who have qualms about Wal-Mart, but aren't quite willing to join the Red Queen in Sentence First, Verdict Second.
sitetest
Who you gonna believe, the Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce or Superiorslots? If you want some funny examples of Slots' previous problems with math, freepmail me.