[NotADove]

Can Wal-Mart and our trade-deficit with China be traced to the Ozark Caligula administration's decision to allow our satellites to head up in space via China rockets(Lorel)? As an adolescent in the 70's and 80's, I never heard of Wal-Mart until the 90's. It was always K-Mart, etc. I personally don't shop at Wal-Mart.

[Nowhere Man]

Can Wal-Mart and our trade-deficit with China be traced to the Ozark Caligula administration's decision to allow our satellites to head up in space via China rockets(Lorel)? As an adolescent in the 70's and 80's, I never heard of Wal-Mart until the 90's. It was always K-Mart, etc. I personally don't shop at Wal-Mart.

Yeah, I went to Wal*Mart the first time in 1989 when I visited my aunt in Austin, Texas. We didn't get our first Wal*Mart here in Pittsburgh until the late 1990's. I'm not a Wal*Mart fan, I just don't care how the store is set up, the aslies are narrow and they are just a step aboce a junk store to me. About all of this stuff with selling goods from Red China and so on, yeah, Wal*Mart is a sinner but so is everyone else, K-Mart, Target, and so on. I do feel there is some fire to the smoke of Wal*Marts practices where it hurts the Mom and Pop stores but again, I'm sure the others bite into that too. We have a problem in this country with our jobs going abroad and wages getting lower, although Wal*Mart is a part of it, but the picture is much bigger.