Posted on 11/09/2006 10:10:32 AM PST by Froufrou
"The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was more a consequence of the onset of the Great Depression than an initial cause."
Back then, my guess was our main trading partners were European countries and there was somewhat of a cultural, social, industrial and economic equivalence there.
Today our trading partners are place like India, Red China, Taiwan, the Phillippines, where the cultural, social and economic gaps are astronomical with respect to us.
I disagree with you. Finding American products is no more difficult in WalMart than it is in Target. As to the garment workers, well I would lay far more blame on unions and government regulation than I would lay on any retailer.
I forgot about the Valient. That slant 6 engine was the energizer bunny of engines.
I had a choice the other day, an American made razor or a Chinese made one (both in Wallyworld.) The American made one was 3 times the cost of the Chinese one. I got the Chinese one, thinking that if it broke, I could replace it twice for the cost of the American one.
Where did you get your PhD in economics?
Or are you a psychic?
That wasn't really my point at all. My point was that when Wal-Mart came to the larger cities they were almost EXCLUSIVELY American-made products and that was how they got my business in the first place!
"I got the Chinese one, thinking that if it broke, I could replace it twice for the cost of the American one."
LOL and waste the fuel and time getting those other 2!
I remember a Reader's Digest in the '80s (we used to get it then) had an article about this store called Wal-Mart. I didn't know what they were. But I read it and indeed, a big deal in the article was the fact "everything is American-made"! Even cute pix of a product with a "Made in USA" stamp on it!
How far they've gone away.
Not that I mind. I just don't like the turn-coat part of it.
As we speak, this was just posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735795/posts
That's not a bad idea. I don't think Walmart will go for it now considering how the AFA has created so much bad press for Walmart.
I agree! And I think they had much to do with that whole 'save American jobs' thing. Back in those days I made a point to look at the label. I should still do it but I usually don't [hangs head.]
Bullcrap. Goofballs that don't take their oath of office seriously is what cost the republicans the elections and as soon as he gets his scamnesty through (now that he has the congress he wanted), it will only get worse.
Hope they got it and keep it up. Maybe my next car will be American - I hope.
I'm all for true free trade. As far as American-made I'd prefer it that way, but then, US-made usually means union-made and that means communism. So in many ways I'm not into supporting that. I don't think buying American supports America as much as it supports "more-money-for-less&bad-work" selfish communism.
Know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see Wal-Mart give 5% of it's profits each year to Military Defense.
Think that would get a few panties in a bunch? ROFLMAO!
I can't keep up with this stuff anymore. I mean, is there anything I can purchase from any company anywhere that won't offend someone's sensibilities?
Luckily, I'm an Anti-Consumer; I'm a mute point to just about any Retailer. :)
They're donating money to "gay" causes. What part of this do you not understand?
You see a problem, and I see a business looking to do more business.
Some social conservatives have a problem with that and believe Walmart is no longer worth supporting.
More power to them. My initial comment was in regard to the fact this would be a non-issue if it were not for the publicity being given it by AFA. This is not the first time they have made sucha mountain out of a molehill when it comes to WalMart.
I've read some of your posts on Walmart and some of your posts on homosexuality. What I think is humorous is I *knew* you were going to say that!
It makes no never mind to me what kind of comments you "know" I'm going to make. My position on both issues remains consistent. I seek my pastor for questions regarding morality, for shopping, I go to retailers and not the other way around.
WalMart is a retailer, it is a business seeking to do good for it's stockholders by appealing to consumers. Other than Lowe's, WalMart is the only major retailer in a 40 mile radius of where I live, until they openned 7 years ago people who lived around here had to travel between 50- and 100 miles to get to any major retailer. They contribute much to the local community in many varied ways.
They are a retailer, and just like any other there are things I don't like about them, but what I do like about them far outweighs it.
If they qualify for the WalMart Affiliate program the way the homosexual group does, it makes no difference to me. Just like I don't go to the homosexual website I don't go to the anti-smoking website, so it's not my money, and iaf it encourages more people to shop online as opposed to in the store, that's even better, because that means less crowds in the store when I decide to go shopping.
That will be two of us and, I am sure there will be plenty more.
Oh I see. If someone is giving something away they you must support them.
I hear the ACLU are going to start giving away dead fetuses next week, Are we to support them?
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