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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (4218)	8/8/2006 11:07:46 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224676

Walmart big box stores have gone too far. What remains of our mom and pop stores ought to be protected whenever possible. You can imagine how many small stores a Walmart would put out of business in a place like Chicago. And since the wages they pay are below the poverty line for a family, the city would have more working poor they'd need to deal with. Many would end up on welfare and Medicaid. Walmart is a huge exploiter of welfare and Medicare, which WE pay for. So beware then hidden costs of low priced Chinese goods.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (4218)	8/8/2006 5:30:03 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224676

Shoppers should boycott WalMart until they start raising all their employees salaries and provide better medical coverage. As the USA's largest employer WMT has for decades consistently downgraded the quality of low-income American jobs. In effect WMT has been rendering the lowest paid Americans even poorer, with a race to third world quality job standards. That's a disgrace. The strongest supporters of Wmt probably never set foot inside one of those ugly boxes.