I had absolutely no idea!
3600 Wal-Mart countries inside the United States?
We've been taken over by rogue nations.
Posted on 03/19/2006 5:42:04 AM PST by B4Ranch
Bump to the top!
No, it is not. Most people who can afford better than what you get at Wal-Mart don't buy at Wal-Mart. The people who are buying Chinese junk are people who would have had to do without or save for a very long time to purchase things. Therefore, they are not "stealing" customers, they have created them.
I had absolutely no idea!
3600 Wal-Mart countries inside the United States?
We've been taken over by rogue nations.
We are now entering terminal stages of the de-industrialization of America. American strength was always related to its industrial might. That is now vanishing and what will follow as a result is almost predictable.
Did you read the article?
>>For example, Honda ships in volumes of components and parts from overseas and then exports soybeans back to Japan in those same containers in record amounts according to Forbes. A definition of "banana republic" includes a country importing a majority of finished goods and exporting mostly raw resources.<
The price to build America back up to what we once were will be very expensive. The lowest price isn't always the best buy.
Of course, whining like a little b-tch with the lefties against a successful corporation feels good, doesn't it?
Ayn Rand would have had a field day with the anti-Wal Mart crowd.
the long-term harm may far exceed expectations, as is the case when Wal-Mart has invested in some local communities."
What long term harm? New roads, housing demands, increased business from trucking, cement plants, construction etc etc. is HARM? Every town I've seen a wal mart go up in, has brought along with it their major competators, bigger safeways etc. And last I looked, wal mart is 100% American owned. Before Wal-mart, many of these towns were near ghost towns because these stagnant mom and pop stores A) only employed one or 2 people, B) paid mininum wage C) forced people to drive to the nearest city to find good they didn't carry. D) didn't bring any business in from other surrounding small communities. These Union communists just don't give up their walmart attack, do they. The Union places, such as COSTCO, buy their cheap crap from China as well. Walmart also sells plenty of AMERICAN made products, MORE that those others stores.
"Can't let the happen, we're Luddites..."
There sure are a lot of them at FR lately. "America was built of our strong industry!" Blah blah blah.
A nation of auto workers.
America was built on COMMERCE. The industrial revolution is over, and only boomed because of war. It COST us more than it made us.
Future industry will never be labor intensive as it was, those factories have died out for good reason, they can't compete. Those that refuse to automate or can't because of UNIONS, die as they deserve to.
They are plenty of labor jobs around, the problem is Americans don't want to work at them. Try finding a crew to build houses. Try find construction workers. These places HAVE to use immigrant workers because Americans don't want those jobs. Americans expect to piddle around in collage for a good 5-7 years, taking philosophy courses, then expect to be given a job as Co. of a large corporation.
Our unemployment rate is low, and our economy is doing well compared to every other around the world. We've been hearing this chicken little doom and gloom ever since Bush took office. Sorry RATS, it's just not going to happen no matter how many times to keep telling yourself the sky is falling.
I agree. The collapse of our economy and our way of life is near. (Without massive wars to try to preserve our economic empire.)
Quick! seal off the borders, batten down the hatches! Let's live in a closed society to "protect our industry (and union wages)".
That's when our economy will fail and our way of life will dissapear.
We need to fight wars alright, to maintain our freedom and the worlds, to prevent a totalitarian idiology from creeping in our nation and the free worlds.
There will be no need to fight that war if you want to just seal off the borders and trade within them. But then, you may as well jump in your time machine and go back to live in the USSR.
What good would that do they all buy the same crap from the same place when is the last time you saw made in America?
It seems to me that the totalitarian idiology is that of the Neocons. All true Republicans and Libertarians are offended as hell that Bush claims to represent them. They love war.
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