<div id="RTEContent"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="">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 <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, was made in the <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br> <br> If you are interested in keeping working conditions poor and inhuman in <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Honduras</st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place
u1:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>, 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. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><u2:p> </u2:p><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:City u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City> residents do have three solid reasons to oppose a Super Wal-Mart center coming into town:<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><u2:p> </u2:p><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span>The Super Wal-Mart will have a grocery store. Those groceries will be made by the slave labor of US farmers.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><u2:p> </u2:p><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span>Will have an oil, lube, and fill-up station. This will drive the price of car service an!
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down. But at what cost? The cost of bigger profits for oil companies? That is not a cost I am willing to accept.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><u2:p> </u2:p><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span>It makes us look like we are real liberals that care about the community.<br> <br>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 !
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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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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 l!
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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. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style=""><br> Take Care,<br> <br> Donovan J <st1:City u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"></st1:place></st1:City><br style=""> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-->BUY MEXICO and you BUY AMERICAN<br> BUY CANADA and you BUY AMERICAN<br> BUY BRAZIL and you BUY AMERICAN<br> They are in America too, just not the US. <br style=""> <!--[endif]--></div> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><b><i>TIM RIGSBY <tim.rigsby@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(!
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255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Buying products made in the USA is a great way to keep the money in our <br>country. But buying products made in Idaho is an even better way to support <br>our local economies. I do as much Idaho shopping as I can but also try and <br>buy as much from Made in USA companies as well. Carhart is a great example <br>of an excellent product that is made in the US. New Balance shoes also are, <br>sometimes, made in the US. But with New Balance, you need to be aware of <br>the ones made in Taiwan, they are cheaper and not as good.<br><br>If anyone is ever in Boise and need to buy some American made clothing, go <br>visit Charlie at Workman Outfitters on Vista Ave. Charlie is probably the <br>greatest American I have ever met.<br><br>Tim<br>Buy Union, Support America!<br><br>Revolution is not a word but an application; it is not war but peace; it <br>does not weaken, but strengthens. Revolution does not cause separation; it <br>ge!
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