[Teacher317]

Wal-mart only threatens union dominance of the grocery industry. Every other American employee and community gets lower prices. Those "American wages" are unreasonably high when the check-out girl with 3 years experience gets as much as a starting teacher or cop, just for scanning UPC labels.

I was tickled by a story from Mexico City I read on FR last week, discussing the popularity of Wal-Mart there for the low prices.

[Havoc]

Oh, give us a break. Walmart brings cheaply manufactured chinese junk into the country to undercut local pricing and drive Americans out of business with their means of making a profit.. slave labor rates vs. US labor rates. This all used to be a common sense discussion before Greed overtook the political machine full bore and the politiciams stopped listening to America and started pandering to business. What's next? Why don't you go sell your mother if profit motive is all that matters?

And btw, US wages were never unreasonable. Nor is your opinion on them worth anything. They were arrived out through supply and demand. Or are you arguing that supply and demand was unfair?