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<div>I go out of my way to avoid making an argument regarding Wal-Mart's wages, pro or con, yet Donovan insists on arguing with me on this point anyway, even demanding to know where I got information I never presented about Wal-Mart wages! This debate style is guaranteed to win! Just demand info that someone never presented about arguments they never made, then prove how wrong they are.
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<div><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">I don't need to discuss Wal-Mart's wages or medical benefits, or connections to exploitation of cheap labor under the rule of the human rights denying gulag operating Chinese Communist Party, to make an argument questioning Wal-Mart's goals in Moscow, but I find it laughable and sad that advocates of free market democratic society think that huge US based multinational corporations doing business with human rights denying communist dictatorships does not imply a blind spot in applying our values to our international policies..
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<div> <br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Hey, if you can get something going to legally oppose all imported goods from sweatshops overseas I am behind you. But it makes no sense to go to ShopKo instead of Walmart when the same abusive labor practices are used by ShopKo and every other businesses. The first company to stop importing goods from overseas sweatshops will no longer be in businesses because they cannot sell a VCR for $145 when everyone else is selling it for $45. On the note of wages, where do you get your information? Walmart pays more than the average wage in Latah County. According to the US Census Bureau the average Household income in Latah is $30,000 a year. With 2 workers per household a person working at Walmart for $10 an hour for 36 hours a week and if there spouse makes $7 an hour at Walmart for 36 hours a week and they have two weeks off a year, they would make the average household income of $30,000 a year. The average salary at Walmart is $18,000 a year. In Latah, the per capital income is $15,000 a year. What is it about a Walmart job that makes you think they should get paid more than the average worker in Latah?
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