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But really I see the exact same merch (when there's product category overlap) in Wal-Mart as Sears, Target, JcPenny's and BestBuy so this whole China slave labor thing is seriously over blown.

Which is why I asked High Road what items WalMart has that are made in China that other stores don't have. After one of the last bash WalMart threads I took a quick walk through the store the next time I was there. Since most of the stuff they sell is in every other store, I really couldn't figure out what they were referring to. About the only items I could imagine would be different from store to store would be clothing. So I did a fast check of the tags of selected clothes racks and I didn't find one piece of clothing from the far east. I'm not saying there aren't any, but it isn't as bad a these WalMart haters say it is.

BTW, does anybody know if it is possible to have a PC (or Mac, for that matter) that doesn't have parts from China in them?

I'm also not terribly convinced by this "Chinese slave" thing. You hear things quoted like 12 cents a day, but in real buying power within China how much does 12 cents a day get you? I had a friend who spent some time in China and he said he was living high on the hog on a buck or two a day. What's the comparative standard of living? Are they any more "slavish" than America's "wage slaves"?

"Which is why I asked High Road what items WalMart has that are made in China that other stores don't have."

This thread is about Wal-Mart so that is why we are discussing Wal-Mart. They are the biggest slave labor traders in the world. I like picking on Wal-Mart.

Maybe you need to ask Wal-Mart to name and list all of their Communist Chinese factories. See how far that will go.