Posted on 02/20/2014 9:38:04 PM PST by Daffynition
Former “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe narrates a powerful new commercial released Thursday and it contains one powerful message: “Work is a beautiful thing.”
Who’s it for? Walmart.
“At one time I made things and I took pride in the things I made, and my belts whirred, and my engines cranked,” Rowe says in the video, delivering a monologue from the perspective of the factory as related images flash across the screen. “I opened my doors to all and together we filled pallets and trucks. I was mighty. And then one day the gears stopped turning.”
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fair warning
i just switched from the laptop to the big screen
Wasn’t that SAM Walton, not Ben?
sam ben there done us i mean that’ll teach them i mean
It's Sam Walton... and up until the late 1980's, WalMart advertised that everything in the store was Made in America.
Yep. I don’t know who the hell Ben Walton is.
Once the cheap imports became available they all started selling it. They should have put labels on the clothing that said “Made in Taiwan By Six Year Olds”.
But, we buy it because we all want to pay less.
The bible does warn you to use fair weights.
In God we trust
I’ll try to follow along....:D
Well, if that’s a real, existing God and not some fictional pixie in the sky (as our loyal atheist opposition likes to say) then there are going to be some things true about this God, and not necessarily all things that we’re comfortable or even familiar with in the condition we are in.
There you are.
The greatest thing about America is that it gave people the right not to be.
Not to be a slave. To any ethnic, cultural, or religious stigma.
But the right to be free doesn’t hasn’t or ever will free you of personal responsibility.
The deaths of the people who don’t get that I will not mourn.
great you enlighten me with the holy c
There were operations that produced frankly US made items for years. They yielded out of a combination of apathy and self fulfilling prophecy and governmental meddling. If we required the same overall philosophy from Chinese factories that we do out of ours, we’d soon be giving China a run for its money again. It used to be that imports were for rare items, not everyday ones.
The Catholics tell us about Mary weeping, but Jesus has to be sobbing over where the once glorious gospel went in America. It wasn’t perfect at any time (slavery anybody?) but what’s happened has made most of us slaves to masters that are crueler than plantation owners of old. Masters of sin, masters of compromise.
Well, I for one don’t want to let it slide any further without a hearty fight first.
i relish that
Oh, good grief.
But it does seem that the principles that God is interested in (which were echoed in the 10 Commandments, though the way they are observed has changed) have been reduced to: what would you like today on your hot dog? Oh you don’t want it? Fine.
Indeed, we find ourselves in quite a pickle. How can we ketchup?
“Lettuce” love our God above all else? Then love our neighbor as we would hope to be loved ourselves?
Don’t fool around with the “tomato” next door you’re not married to?
Etc... various things that served as illustrations of God’s love, or how they were lived out on this mortal coil.
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