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To: StatesEnemy
I would say when you are paying 1 cent in labor costs for the production of child's sweatshirt you plan to sell for $19.99 (it's actually less then 1 cent in many of these piecework monitored 'shops')- that that is a start towards a working definition.

Again, you (not Webster's) are doing the defining, and "felonious" is (or should be) a pretty carefully used word. I don't dig Wal-Mart myself, and while I find the corporation to be problematic on a number of levels, I think "felonious" is more agitprop than adjective when used in regard to overseas labor.

Extracting dirt cheap labor from the poorest, and selling the product at obscene profit margins to the richest,

I'm sorry, but this kind of language strikes me as being too similar to populist/communist street rhetoric for comfort. Regardless of our disagreement, I still intend to stay away from Wally.

But only because:

a. I believe in small business
b. I'm a tremendous social snob despite my limited means.

46 posted on 09/01/2003 7:22:46 AM PDT by niteowl77 (If you aren't still praying for our troops, then you had best take it up again.)
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To: edskid
I'm sorry, but this kind of language strikes me as being too similar to populist/communist street rhetoric for comfort. Regardless of our disagreement, I still intend to stay away from Wally.

That's an irony that usually comes up in these discussions. Some people think it's there right to buy whatever product they want, and call you a communist if you disagree with their buying goods made in communist/third world sweatshops.

56 posted on 09/01/2003 7:36:44 AM PDT by briant
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