A New "Wal-Mart is Evil" thread...

Check out Frontline on PBS. A really good first 20 minutes about Every Day Low Prices. You can still catch the back 40!

 

I love my Wal-Mart today.

 

I love Wal-Mart every day (except for the 15 minutes I'm stuck in line behind someone trying to figure out how a debit card works to pay for a bag of Cheetos and a Dr Pepper at 2 a.m. on a Wednesday on my way home from work).

Really, though, pretty much everything I own comes from Wal-Mart, including Cheetos and Dr Pepper.

 

I won't buy anything at Wal-Mart except my Sunday go-to-meeting clothes.

 

I'd buy a car at Wal-Mart if they sold them there, as long as I never had to wait 3 hours to get my oil changed on a Saturday afternoon.

 

Enjoy those every day low prices made of the backs of Chinese youth at $.25 an hour!

 

Did the Chinese make that high horse you're on?

 

High horse? I guess you just don't like to see how the sausage is made.

 

http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200612/code-green-wal-mart.html

 

Ever stop to think that labor in foreign countries is paid at the going rate, in those countries. Maybe $1 an hour is a living wage in Vietnam or Cambodia or the Phillipines.

 

Well, Hondo, I did think about that, and I'll be damned. But Chinese currency (yuan??) compared to the dollar is kept artificially low by the Chinese government. Strike one.

 

Okay, that's one country. Do we know, for certain, that the wages paid to workers overseas for goods sold in the U.S. aren't living wages, or at least the same as our minimum wage?