[Vision2020] BUY AMERICAN BUY WAL-MART

Tue Nov 22 22:54:01 PST 2005

    I  went to Wal-Mart today and bought a bunch of stuff. Items like food, cleaning  supplies, and even pharmaceuticals. All of them, except the rice grown in Canada, was made  in the United States.

  If you are interested in keeping working conditions poor and inhuman in China, Honduras, Mexico, and Bangladesh,  you should buy as many American products as possible. If foreigners do not get  our money, they cannot improve working conditions for the poor in those  countries. Keeping profit margins at minimal levels insures foreign governments  cannot force businesses in their country to invest in better conditions for the  workers. This of course will shut down all those slave labor factories where  the workers will then be free to get better higher paying jobs with better  working conditions waiting for them elsewhere. Even if it does not shut them down,  the US needs the money more anyway. 

      Moscow  residents do have three solid reasons to oppose a Super Wal-Mart center coming  into town:

      1)       The Super Wal-Mart will have a grocery store. Those groceries  will be made by the slave labor of US farmers.

      2)       Will have an oil, lube, and fill-up station. This will drive the  price of car service and gas down. But at what cost? The cost of bigger profits  for oil companies? That is not a cost I am willing to accept.

      3)       It makes us look like we are real liberals that care about the  community.

Joan Opyr also brought up a great point. Us poor people should not  buy a $20 pair  of jeans if that is all we can afford. We should instead buy a $80 pair  of  designer jeans that will last five times as long, which is actually  cheaper in  the long run, especially if we have kids that grow out them in six  months.   Also, instead of buying a used Hyundai for $5,000 they should buy  a new  Chevy Tahoe for $25,000 because it will last six times as long. And us  poor stupid mobile home and apartment dwellers, we should buy a 5  bedroom house for  $300,000 because it will last way longer and increase in value as time  goes on, and we must not forget the indoor pool and sauna. 

  On my way home driving my Ford, I got stuck behind a SUV with an environmental  sticker on the back bumper as I drove past houses of environmentalists with  every light on in their two or three person households of  2,500+ sq  ft built on land with huge water hungry yards originally acquired cheaply through the slaughter and  suppression of millions of native peoples. 

  So for those of you that hate Wal-Mart for not doing something about the  Chinese government not enforcing Chinese labor laws in China, as you sip on  your double caramel mocha latte with whipped cream and sprinkles for $6 out of  a cup made in China, rather than donating the money to the factories in  Bangladesh for improved working conditions, made with beans grown by the slave  labor of millions of Latin Americans, this gives you something to think about.  If you want to look at preach to someone profiteering off the labor, health and well being  of millions of others you can pick up a full length mirror for $9.99 at  Wal-Mart.   

  Take Care,

  Donovan J Arnold

  BUY MEXICO and you BUY AMERICAN
  BUY CANADA and you BUY AMERICAN
  BUY BRAZIL and you BUY AMERICAN
  They are in America too,  just not the US. 

TIM RIGSBY <tim.rigsby at hotmail.com> wrote:  Buying products made in the USA is a great way to keep the money in our 
country.  But buying products made in Idaho is an even better way to support 
our local economies.  I do as much Idaho shopping as I can but also try and 
buy as much from Made in USA companies as well.  Carhart is a great example 
of an excellent product that is made in the US.  New Balance shoes also are, 
sometimes, made in the US.  But with New Balance, you need to be aware of 
the ones made in Taiwan, they are cheaper and not as good.

If anyone is ever in Boise and need to buy some American made clothing, go 
visit Charlie at Workman Outfitters on Vista Ave.  Charlie is probably the 
greatest American I have ever met.

Tim
Buy Union, Support America!

Revolution is not a word but an application; it is not war but peace; it 
does not weaken, but strengthens. Revolution does not cause separation; it 
generates togetherness.
-John Africa, Strategic Revolution

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