The Ultimate pro-WalMart Article

Ludwig von Mises Institute ^ | June 28, 2006 | Paul Kirklin

[Calpernia]

We, who buy Made in China

http://www.uschina.org/member_companies.html

USCBC Member Companies

(As of 04/01/2006)

ABB Inc. ACE INA APCO Worldwide APL Limited Abbott Laboratories Aearo Company Agilent Technologies, Inc. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Albany International Corp. The Albright Group LLC Allen & Overy LLP Allied Pickfords - a SIRVA company Alticor Inc. Altria Group, Inc. American Express Company American International Group, Inc. American Standard Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Applica Incorporated Applied Materials, Inc. Archer Daniels Midland Company Armstrong Teasdale LLP Asian American Coal, Inc. Avon Products, Inc. BNSF Railway BP Baker & Daniels Baker & McKenzie LLP Baker Botts LLP Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz BearingPoint, Inc. Bechtel Group, Inc. Belden CDT Inc. Best Buy Co., Inc. Blackboard Inc. The Blackstone Group LP The Boeing Company Briggs & Stratton Corporation Brunswick Group LLP Burlington Resources Inc. CPNA International Ltd. Cargill, Incorporated Carus Chemical Company Case New Holland Inc. Caterpillar Inc. Celanese Acetate LLC Central Purchasing of China, Inc. Chart Industries, Inc. A. W. Chesterton Company Chevron Chicago Metallic Corp. Chindex International, Inc. Chrysallis Consulting LLC The Chubb Corporation CIGNA Corporation Cisco Systems, Inc. Citigroup Inc. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Clifford Chance LLP The Clorox Company The Coca-Cola Company The Cohen Group Colgate-Palmolive Company Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC ConocoPhillips Control Risks Group Corning Incorporated Crane Co. Crowell & Moring LLP Crown Equipment Corporation Cummins Inc. Curtiss-Wright Corporation DH China Consulting Ltd. DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP DaimlerChrysler Corporation Danaher Corporation Davis Wright Tremaine Dell Inc. Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Dewey Ballantine LLP The Walt Disney Company Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Dow Chemical Company Dow Jones & Company John Dudinsky & Associates E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Eastman Chemical Company Eastman Kodak Company Eaton Corporation Edelman Emerson Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Exxon Mobil Corporation FMC Corporation Federal Express Corporation Fluor Corporation Paul H. Folta & Associates, LLC Ford Motor Company Foster Wheeler North America Fox Intercultural Consulting Services Barbara Franklin Enterprises Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Garvey Schubert Barer General Electric Company General Motors Corporation Gerson Lehrman Group GlaxoSmithKline Global Industries, Ltd. Global Power Equipment Group Inc. Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company W. R. Grace & Co. W. W. Grainger, Inc. Gruber Systems Inc. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Harley-Davidson, Inc. Harsco Corporation Herbalife International of America Heritage Capital Advisors, LLC Hewlett-Packard Company Hill & Associates (Americas) Inc. Hills & Company Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. The Hoffman Agency Hogan & Hartson LLP Honeywell Human Resource Services, Inc. Hutchinson Technology Inc. IBM Corporation ITT Industries, Inc. Ingersoll-Rand Company Intel Corporation International Paper Company Intrado, Inc. Invacare Corporation Jenessco Industries, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Jones Day KaiTai Comprehensive Technologies Kamsky Associates, Inc. Kanawha Scales & Systems, Inc. Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc. Kaye Scholer LLP Kinsella Group, Inc. Kissinger McLarty Associates E. J. Krause & Associates LaFrance Corp. Lexmark International, Inc. Liberty International Holdings, Inc. Lovells Lucent Technologies Lyondell Chemical Company MRI Worldwide China Group MTS Systems Corporation Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Mary Kay Inc. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw McCandlish Holton, PC J. Ray McDermott/Babcock & Wilcox The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Merck & Co., Inc. Merrill Lynch MetLife, Inc. Micron Technology, Inc. Microsoft Corporation Mine Safety Appliances Company Modern Drop Forge Company

Monarch Import Company Monitor Group Monsanto Company Moody's Investors Service Moore Recycling Associates Inc. J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. Morgan Stanley Morrison & Foerster LLP The Mosaic Company Motorola, Inc. New York Life International, LLC Noble Corporation Nortel Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. O'Melveny & Myers LLP Orrick-Coudert Oshkosh Truck Corporation PRD Inc. Pacific Trade International Inc. Parsons Brinckerhoff International Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Payless ShoeSource PepsiCo, Inc. Pfizer Inc Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Praxair, Inc. Preston Gates & Ellis LLP PricewaterhouseCoopers Prochimie International, Inc. Prudential Financial QUALCOMM Incorporated Riddell*Tseng Rockwell Automation Rohm and Haas Company Rouse & Co. International E. C. Ryan International, Inc. SOR Inc. Samuels International Associates, Inc. Sara Lee Corporation The Scowcroft Group Sedgman, LLC Shaklee Corporation Shell International Exploration & Production Shon Strategies Sidley Austin LLP Sierra Asia Partners USA, Ltd. A. O. Smith Corporation Squire Sanders & Dempsey Standard Chartered Bank Steptoe & Johnson LLP Stonebridge International LLC The Stowell Company Sun Microsystems, Inc. SureBlock Company Sybase, Inc. Tektronix, Inc. Tenneco Automotive Texas Instruments Incorporated Thacher Proffitt & Wood ThreeSixty Sourcing Inc. Time Warner Inc. The Timken Company Tyco International UPS Underwriters Laboratories Inc. United Airlines, Inc. United Technologies Corporation The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino Vernay Laboratories, Inc. Visa International WBC Global, LLC WPP Group Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Washington Group International Watson Wyatt Worldwide Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC Weyerhaeuser Company Whirlpool Corporation White & Case LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Zachry Global Services, Inc.

[bfree]

I never feel sorry for unions or their members, ever. The socialist demands by those leave me with the feeling that they are incapable of making a life for themselves. There is an old saying in business that you should pay attention to--
ADAPT OR DIE.

You do seem very jealous of anyone doing better than you are. You get no sympathy from me.

[Toddsterpatriot]

We, who buy Made in China

I see. So there is no difference between buying a toy made in China and imprisoning, beating, abusing and killing innocent Chinese citizens? Got it.

[Petronski]

Havoc, is that you? LOL

[1rudeboy]

Is that a list of companies that sell to, buy from, or do both?

[Calpernia]

>>>>So there is no difference between buying a toy made in China and imprisoning, beating, abusing and killing innocent Chinese citizens?

Correct.

[Calpernia]

That is the member list of the

I don't know the specific details of all their business interactions.

It is researchable though by going by 'product type' + 'falon gong' or 'falun gong' blogs under a search engine such as Clusty to see if a business buys from the labor prisons. Don't use Google for the searches, they are under order to block many keywords concerning the Falun Gong.

[gas0linealley]

"You get no sympathy from me."

I don't want your sympathy. I told you what I have learned and you refuse to listen. I hope you are much younger than I am and that you live long enough to regret your callousness. If history does indeed repeat itself then you have some interesting times in store.

[bfree]

I'm probably a little older than you and I really think you are wrong.

[bfree]

Just tell me, how old are you?

[Cable225]

Last question - what line of work are you in?

[gas0linealley]

"Just tell me, how old are you?"

I'm old enough to remember when unionized industrial and construction workers enjoyed the level of income which is now owned by the unionized public sector employees like police and school teachers.
I'm also old enough to have had a father who was in harm's way during WW2 and who told me how the Japanese had such a huge appetite for our scrap metal as they built their war machine.
I'm old enough to have actually studied history in school and thus to have learned that when rulers oppress people long enough and severely enough they eventually lose their heads.

[bfree]

Well you didn't answer my question. My father was halos in WW2, and he learned to make a good life for himself and our family. He taught us that success is based on the individual, not by groups. I also took many history courses and nothing in the US history equates to the nonsense you speak. The unionization of the public sector will bankrupt the country eventually, not save it. Your unions have cost the country multiple industries and are the main reasons so many jobs have been lost. Hopefully, you're collecting the union pension that you worked for, but I would guess you are disappointed in that also and just seek to blame others for that failure and disappointment.

[SamAdams76]

I think Wal-Mart is fantastic. I'm a big fan of Wal-Mart. I want to see them grow and grow and grow. I believe they will eventually place 45,000 Super Center stores in the USA and they will control 90% of the retail business and 80% of the grocery business.

But I'll never shop there because I'm too much of a snob. I'll continue getting my groceries at Whole Food Markets and Trader Joes and I'll get my retail stuff at places like Sharper Image and I'll pay triple the price that people pay at Wal-Mart do for the same stuff because I'm yuppie scum and I'm proud of it. Oh yeah, and I drink microbrew beer and Starbucks coffee and I subscribe to satellite radio because I'm too special to listen to free FM with all that yakety-yak and commercials. I'm a beautiful person and I'll be in Martha's Vineyard this weekend. Over and out.

[Petronski]

Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
Arise, you wretched of the earth!
For justice thunders condemnation:
A better world's in birth!
No more tradition's chains shall bind us,
Arise you slaves, no more in thrall!
The earth shall rise on new foundations:
We have been nought, we shall be all!
'Tis the final conflict,
Let each stand in his place.
The international soviet
Shall be the human race
'Tis the final conflict,
Let each stand in his place.
The international soviet
Shall be the human race

[Toddsterpatriot]

Soviet Anthem

[gas0linealley]

Are you implying that I'm a communist sympathizer?

[Mase]

[Jaysun]

PING-A-LING for when I have some TIME-A-LING

[Toddsterpatriot]

Is meat murder?