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To: steampower
" "So much stuff comes from China but last I checked, Wal-Mart isn't in charge of the Chinese workers."

The libs won't shop at Walmart because of all the imported stuff "taking away jobs from Americans" but you can find the same people down the street at Whole Foods loading up on French cheese, Italian wine, Swedish Lingonberry sauce, Argentinian beef and (yes) Finnish-made Fiskars scissors.

It's all about style, herd instinct, and self-congratulation.

60 posted on 03/11/2005 7:12:43 AM PST by cookcounty (LooneyLibLine: "The ONLY reason for Operation Iraqi FREEDOM was WMD!!" ((repeat til brain is numb))
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To: cookcounty

My experience lately is that I can find very little in manufactured consumer goods that ISN'T made in China. And I prefer to do my buying at Mom and Pop stores.

I'm willing to pay more for American made goods, but if I insist on American made, I'll often have to do without.

Many seem to see the situation we are now in as black and white, from one perspective or another, but it isn't at all that simple.

However. there is an anology from another current problem facing the world today which may be applicable in this case. I'm speaking about the practice of some beef growers who have been feeding cattle the unsaleable portions of their bovine brothers...with disastrous results.

If we feast on our brother's misfortune, we will surely come to an awful end.


68 posted on 03/11/2005 7:30:49 AM PST by steampower
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