Andrew Young to Head Pro-Wal-Mart Group

(AP) - Former United Nations ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young will be the public spokesman for a group organized with backing from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that defends the world's largest retailer against mounting attacks from its critics.

Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group of community leaders from across the country, was set to announce Monday that Young will be the chairman of its 16 member steering committee formed in December to counter charges from two union-backed groups that are pressuring Wal-Mart to improve wages and benefits.

Gabz,

I just got back from buying a new mouse(microsoft) and guess what the bottom of the box said-made in China and the battery(energizer) made is Singapore. I didn't buy it at Walmart. Hard to believe isn't it? From reading many of the anti Walmart posts, I thought ONLY Walmart sold things from China. I guess even the famous Mom and Pop stores sell Chinese goods. I forgot to ask the clerk about his fabulous pay package and free health benefits! LOL!!!

I guess even the famous Mom and Pop stores sell Chinese goods. I forgot to ask the clerk about his fabulous pay package and free health benefits!

You blasphemer you..............you of all people should know that it is only WalMart sells things made in China and working for mom and pops, which only sell American products, are the greatest jobs on the faceof the planet - well at least the few that are still left after WalMart forced them all out of business with bad service, dirty stores, and cheap crap.

Shame on you.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Dr. Williams is awesome. :)

I've sat aside the morning to read through his citizen articles and his Hillsdale College lecture .

I personally believe that economics is fun and valuable. People who say they found it a nightmare in college just didn't have a good teacher-professor.

Personally, I believe that bad teacher-professor most likely choked the life out of his students with Samuelson's Economics. :-)

"Williams, the true test of whether someone understands his subject is whether he can explain it to someone who doesn't know a darn thing about it." That's a challenge I love: making economics fun and understandable.

Looks like my kind of guy.

A story is told about Thorstein Veblen's teaching style at the University of Chicago. Apparently, he tried his best not to have one.

At the beginning of each semester, after dutifully calling the roll for the first and last time, he would inform his students they couldn't possibly pass his exams, and therefore could not possibly pass his course. They should withdraw.

He then proceeded, some say deliberately, to make his lectures as boring and as incomprehensible as possible. The few students who managed to endure to the end were generally all rewarded with the same grade, a "C".

Don't think Williams and Veblen would have gotten along. :-)

Throw some coins in his hat, and that guy will tap dance for anybody.

The Mr. Bojangles insinuation is over-the-top.

Andy has made several public statements supporting the war in Iraq. He has developed into one of the more moderate black political luminaries in the country.

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