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Originally Posted by dyna mo
actually, none of that has anything to do with walmart. it's myopic to think walmart is to blame for manufacturing moving out of the u.s. it's also not accurate to state walmart costs america 100,000s of thousands of jobs, that's just not true.
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I do not think that Wal Mart is solely responsible for manufacturing moving out of the US. I blame corporate greed versus corporate responsibility and a Government entirely too stupid to see the damage that was inevitable by following along like slobbering dogs such moronic things like the WTO and NAFTA. Simple enough? Make it easy for a company to get everything made outside the US for pennies on the dollar and they will take jobs away from Americans. By Wal Mart leading the way to purchase all their shit products from third world manufacturing they have insured the fall of the American middle class. Now they are not the ONLY company that does this, but they are a leader. Even when you read on their clothing that the garment was 'Made In America' it is a blatant legal ploy that everyone now knows is false
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i also think minimum wage is perfectly adequate for the tasks those sorts of employees do, it's not rocket science and quite frankly, considered menial labor.
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Of course you do, a lot of people do. I consider that to be beyond short sighted. Those minimum wage earners are going to cost you money one way or the other you will pay for the growing number of Americans that are living at or below the poverty line. It is quite expensive to society to have a large percent of the population living in poverty. IF Wal Mart was a responsible corporate leader they would patronize companies that were based in the US and manufactured products in the US... I do not know if you have ever worked in a factory, I did. While I was not a piece meal employee (I was a welder) I saw piece meal employees who worked their asses off making high quality products for pennies a piece... and this was a union job. There are savings to be made there and Wal Mart could have agreements with US manufacturers to insure low prices on the products while employees made a living wage. It is possible, they choose not to
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the fact that the cost of living is disproportionate to wages is also not the fault of walmart. moreover, they're not an altruistic charity, they are a business, it's not their responsibility to save those who are not surviving on one wage, far from it.
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I do not expect a company of any kind to be a charity, profits drive industry and I am not an idiot. You know that Henry Ford was probably the most influential Industrialist in history. He can up with mass production so that he could sell a good product at a price the average American could afford. IF companies continue to move jobs overseas or companies purchase products manufactured overseas exactly who is going to be able to afford to buy their product in the US. A shift is happening in the world economy and America is racing towards 2cd or 3rd world status. Our economic base is being slowly destroyed right under out feet and we are too busy arguing over the stupidest shit ever to notice.
while none of this is 'wal mart's fault' they are a huge player on a lot of different levels