What is Wal-Mart Trying To Hide?

Kansas Workbeat ^

[Porterville]

I think it is called the proloteriat

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Absolutely right. I used to go through that miserable untangling of Christmas tree lghts, looking for the bad bulb, and trying to replace it without ruining the little wire prongs (a task that usually required several beers). Also, we used to re-use the outdoor lights for years (not a safe practice, especially in a severe Northern climate like Alaska, where insulation cracks so easily).

Now I go to WAL-MART or COSTCO and buy new lights- right AFTER Christmas, and put them away for next year.

Only one example of a product that is much more affordable with "free trade".

[Missouri]

Start planning NOW to avoid contributing to the Chinese army that owns the shipping company that transports Walmart's inventory this Christmas.

Well said. I always try to buy American or just do without. Now if I can just get the wife to go along with the program.

Sad to say that Christmas has become nothing more than "Christians buying stuff from Non-Christians".

[cashion]

I emailed Wal-Mart about their domestic partner policy and about the fact that they are selling Hilary's book and not Ann Coulter's.

I went to walmart.com and found Ann Coulter's "Treason" available for purchase.

Also, there was a post this week about Wal-Mart.com selling a book that encourages pedophilia. I think Wal-Mart has some explaining to do.

That was amazon.com. Now you have some explaining to do.

[Texas_Dawg]

I'm just curious--how long has it been since you had to LIVE on minimum wage? How long since you even had to live on $5.35 an hour? I would bet the difference that you are making much more than $5.35 an hour.

Well whose fault is THAT?!? I don't make minimum wage because I don't want to. My grandparents made much less at one point, but as opposed to sitting around and whining about things like you do, they changed that. Instead of complaining, if you are worried about what you make, I suggest you change that as well.

[lelio]

Why isn't that a true statement?

I notice you convienently left off the 2nd half of my post where I said that they would spend the saved money on more goods from China or illegal immigrant labor.

[Walkin Man]

Start planning NOW to avoid contributing to the Chinese army that owns the shipping company that transports Walmart's inventory this Christmas.

Yes indeed.

[meyer]

This whole “story” is a contradiction. The first three paragraphs tell us that it’s virtually impossible to find out even where Wal-mart buys their merchandise “Even the President of the United States could not find out from Wal-Mart where it manufactures its goods”.

Then they go on to tell us exactly where the merchandise is made, who makes it, how much they are paid, what they eat, where they sleep, and on and on…

Excellent observation. We, myself included, argue the finer points of a story that appears to be unsubstantiated based on its own content.

[Dog Gone]

I conveniently left that off because you don't know what they'll spend the money on. If you're trying to assert the second part of your statement as fact instead of hot air, I'd request that you back it up.

Otherwise, the first part of your statement is the only substantive part.

[meyer]

The "expert" economists so far have remained mute on this aspect, a $50 VCR seems cheap, until the social costs of divorce, meth-fueled burglary and a bunch of other nasty by-products of a "post industrial" society are factored in.

The societal ills you mention aren't related to a "post-industrial" society; they are related to a liberal upbringing and socialistic teachings.

[Conservababe]

I wonder how the "Free Traders" would feel if our defense industry left for lower wages in Communist China?

Those new black berets that the military wears now were made in China.

[sirchtruth]

*that had to be one of the most stupid damn arguments i've heard in a long time*

Well, at least you read the post!

Did you bother reading the rant?

[Kay Soze]

Walmart will soon go the way of Kmart.

I would rather spend 20% more on an item then fight their horrendous parking, narrow isles, crummy service and twenty minute check out stands.

[StatesEnemy]

Also, we used to re-use the outdoor lights for years (not a safe practice, especially in a severe Northern climate like Alaska, where insulation cracks so easily).

Now I go to WAL-MART or COSTCO and buy new lights- right AFTER Christmas, and put them away for next year.

Only one example of a product that is much more affordable with "free trade".

And that doesn't strike you as a porcine example of wastefulness (the opposite of conservatism BTW)?

Imagine a quality US manufactured set of LED based X-Mass lights that require an initial $20 investment but last 20 years.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Well, yeah, probably. But it's my money.

[Dane]

And that doesn't strike you as a porcine example of wastefulness (the opposite of conservatism BTW)?

Imagine a quality US manufactured set of LED based X-Mass lights that require an initial $20 investment but last 20 years

Ping me when you find a set. Like I stated before I used to dread the day after Thanksgiving, when the Christmas decorations went up. Looking through thousands of lights to find the "bad" one.

BTW, SE, why don't you start up your own company and make such an infallible set of lights as you stated in your above italicized passage.

Surely, you, the truest of truest Americans, could make such a dream come true.

A $20 set of Christmas lights that will last for 20 years.

[StatesEnemy]

Actually, after I wrote that I realized what a good idea it is.

A perfect application for LEDs.

[StatesEnemy]

OK, it'll cost ya $29.95

[Dane]

OK, it'll cost you $29.95

Is there an absolute guarantee, they will last 20 years?

Also do they have clear lights, and not as big, for outdoor use?

Heck if I pay $2 for a roll of 100 lights at my local K-Mart or Wal-Mart, which are in stock and no waiting for the mailman or UPS man, what is the advantage of going with your suggestion, other than feeling superior and overloading an already overloaded mail system which has personal and petinent gifts in the pipeline, while I wait for the "quality" lights.

[Patriotways]

WAL-MART and the RED CHINESE SECRET POLICE, {Red China Free Trade Zone in America}
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/517483/posts