Sorry, but it is you who needs to buy a clue.......
I will explain it slowly to you..............WalMart has nothing to do with this particular loss of manufacturing jobs, does it? Of course not, thus the sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek nature of my comment.
The loss of any US manufacturing job is a not a good thing.....however, it is not as if this is a surprise to these people or they did not have a hand in the demise of their own jobs.......it was part of the contract negotiation of the union, which is usually voted upon by the rank and file.
Walmart has something to do with loss of manufacturing jobs so I would tend to disagree that it has nothing to do. It may have no direct tie to this particular loss. On that I would agree. They are part of the problem - which is different from saying they are the problem. The German people were part of the problem of the third reich. They were enablers. That didn't make them the planners, schemers, etc. They went along with the public rhetoric of the politicos. Walmart is an enabler and active participant in undermining the US job base by using foriegn labor rates to compete local labor out of their own market.. which is no different in essence than what our forefathers warred with a King over and wrote our constitution over. You can tap dance all you like and won't get around that central point. We're being scuttled right now by the very thing that the forefathers protested, rebelled against and ultimately founded this country rejecting - subverting local labor via dumping and unfair competition.
The loss of US manufacturing is a forgone conclusion when Walmart can break a walstreet top producer like RubberMade(sp) in the fashion that they did. They destroyed a top rated manufacturer with their games. When you're powerful enough to do that and then choose to import 60 plus percent of your manufactured goods for sale from china because of wage/labor rates and use that to compete directly against local market pricing, thereby using dumping to subvert the local market - you are part of the problem.
As for the union, that's a whole other topic. Whether the closing was voted on by the rank and file is immaterial to the reason the location had to close.
I don't need to buy a clue, I got one. I can see the relationships of cause and effect clearly and present them clearly because I'm not worried about what someone else will think about it or whether it will hurt my position or not.
In essence, I don't care about anything in it but the American people. Many of you have to defend this crap because you feel threatened at party level or want to see it happen because you're profitting from it and don't care who is damaged while you take money baths. IE, as long as you get yours, you don't care about anyone else. Politics in this country isn't about getting your way. It's about doing what's right for America. Until you rediscover that idea, ya'll have no place in politics.