Here is my prediction. WalMart is going to get spanked real hard by the US Gov't or some other group for unfair business practices. Anti-trust, what have you. Kinda like Microsoft. Just my gut feeling. No logic or intelligence to back that up.
Rez, I have to disagree with all of this. All except the last sentence.
People like you would be right at home in good ol' Dickensian England. Child labor, 18-hour days 7 days a week, loosing limbs in machines, union activists being roughed up by management goons. As long as the government "gets off the backs of business" and let's the "marketplace" work itself out, everything will be dandy.
Ah, I have been
rebuked!! "People like me!!"
Oh, my.
When they can't say anything constructive, a weak debater will resort to the
ad hominum of "pepole like you" as if this is some sort of indictment to which any number of scurrulous things can be attached. Things like child labor, and
Dickens, of all people. Why stop there? What about Caligula?
I'm not a proponent of "child labor", but I have to tell you that the Asians are very successful as immigrants here because they are familiar with "work" (we used to call them "chores") from a young age. I had chores on our farm. I think it made me a better person.
The moveon.org commercial that CBS refused to run (I didn't know youn had it in you, Mel) features a lot of scenes of child labor. Of course, this has never been a part of the Bush plan. They suggest that this is a good image to illustrate how the next generation will be paying fror the deficit spending of today. If the country were to never recover from the recession, that would be true. However, the facts of history show that reducing taxes will increase revenues to the treasury.
The dems are really torqued off that this kind of spending program was yanked right out from under them by Bush. They would have spent the same money on the program, but they never would have run such a ridiculous commercial. They would have patted themselves on the back for their caring, their sensitivity, and oh yes, their
intelligence.
With reference to OSHA, etc:
I fail to understand why any of these things are bad. Sure, like with about everything else, they have been taken to extremes and therefore marginalized their effectiveness, but each was created to fix a problem.
I'm saying that different areas of the world are developing their laws and goverenments at different rates right now, and eventually there will be a similarity as far as the philosophy of the country and culture allow. While each was created to fix a problem, it can be argued that all of these have, in typical governmnet over-reach, gone too far. We can talk more about that if you want.
So, don't worry. All of the world will be buying Chinese products for some time to come. It's the best way to bring them a change in government, and expose them to the rest of the world. It's interesting that they have had time to look at all of the world's systems and plans, and now appear to be favoring our capitalist system as the most viable model. Hmmm.
Those problems for the most part do not exist today in America. And yet they do in China, and we're doing our best to exploit it. Doesn't seem right to me.
We are voting with our wallets, as someone else mentioned.
If you disagree, don't shop there. If you lose the election, suck it up and move on.
