Wal Mart represents close to 25% of China’s GDP (that was according to the 60 Minutes story on Wal Mart).
Do you shop at Wal Mart? Then you do business with Communist China.
Myself, this year makes eight years since I last set foot in a Wal Mart. I’m also extremely careful about not buying things from China.
That’s because eight years ago on FR I got to see a page with gruesome photographs of some teenage girls being murdered by Chinese soldiers for writing about democracy. Every time I drive by a Wal Mart I think of those girls in their cute sweaters with their heads blown off.
I know it upsets some FReepers that I won’t shop at Wal Mart but I have drawn a line. I can’t have my money support a company that supports a country that is the enemy of my freedom and liberty and is the enemy of freedom and liberty everywhere.
I bought a kitchen garbage can (made in U.S.A.), and some rawhide dog chews (made in Argentina) just yesterday.
I buy things from wherever at the lowest prices that I can find, as long as those things are very necessary or will make my family more self-sufficient soon. ...except for some items that need to be of exceptional durability (e.g., an American-made solar charge controller). In the near future, we won’t be buying anything at all for a decade or so. We need small government and might see that and the end of globalism after the national default.
Buying Chinese made goods helps to destroy the world. I very, very occasionally have to buy something made in China, but if I have any other alternative (made elsewhere, make it myself, get it used, make something else work, or do without) I will take the other alternative.
I admire your patriotism but your anger at WalMart is misplaced. Do you shop at Target, K-Mart, Home Depot, CostCo, Lowes, J.C. Pennys, Sears, and most any other large store or chain? How about your supermarket? All buy from China.
If you want to find the culprit look to Washington, D.C. Our restrictive regulations concerning safety, the environment, who we hire and who and how we fire, the labor unions, and onerous taxes on individuals and business. Look at the government and the Fed Reserve and how they control the banks and lending practices.
Had the Democrats and labor unions not destroyed our business environment over the last 50+ years our economy would be booming and no manufacturing would have ever left the country. Then China would just be a minor player in the world.
Considering the way the left has taken over the Democrat Party, the media, the unions, etc., do you think that is an accident?