A look inside the Wal-Mart business model

The Boston Globe ^ | February 26, 2006 | Cecil Johnson, Knight-Ridder

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Go back to sleep guys-- your welfare check isn't due till tomorrow.

ROFL!

[Jim Noble]

There are some on this board who think it is mandated in the Constitution that they can force some Americans to pay higher prices so that other Americans can have a job

No, that's not it exactly.

We start from the point that "other Americans having jobs" is a positive good. We can easily become Brazil if they don't.

Next, we look at the cost of giving you the choice to pay a lower price. That cost extends beyond the mere permissive state vis-a-vis Chinese labor - it requires a worldwide police force, progressive enlargement of transnational institutions, the gradual abolition of borders, and eventually (because socialism is always the choice of the poor and the hungry) the abolition of the US Constitution.

It's not about "forcing you to pay a higher price".

It's about forcing you to protect what your forefathers so wisely built.

[DugwayDuke]

"We start from the point that "other Americans having jobs" is a positive good. We can easily become Brazil if they don't."

Why don't we start with the Constitution? Please show where the federal government is empowered to promote this 'positive good'.

"Next, we look at the cost of giving you the choice to pay a lower price."

Why don't we look at the price of taking away choices? Care to explain how the Federal government encourages freedom while reducing the freedom to choose?

"It's not about "forcing you to pay a higher price". It's about forcing you to protect what your forefathers so wisely built."

I'm in favor of defending the freedom to choose how to spend one's money without interference from the Federal Government. Our forefathers fought to preserve that freedom.