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To: bentway who wrote (719034)	6/2/2013 2:12:51 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579981

>> If a Costco wants to employ freedmen and actually pay them, that should be their right. If a McDonalds wants to use slaves, then they ought to be allowed to try. It isn't "slave labor" when the relationship is consensual. No one is REQUIRING a person to work for $5.00/hour, but if a person wants to do it, who the hell is government to tell them they cannot? Workers often take something away from work other than cash. If a person, for example, wants to work for a cabinetmaker for $5.00/hour for year so he learn those skills, he damned well ought to be able to do it. And the cabinetmaker ought not to be discouraged from hiring him. It is just stupid, liberal, ass-backward economic policy.

To: bentway who wrote (719034)	6/5/2013 8:52:42 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB longnshort Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579981

Costco actually is more like the Sams Club part of Walmart. I think. I've never been in a Costco. There are only 3 Costco's in the Houston area but lots more Sams and ordinary Walmarts. If Costco's model is so superior, it should succeed and force Walmart to move toward them. Just for the heck of it, I looked at Costco and Sams Clubs in Seattle in case Houston was different. But there are more Sams Clubs than Costco's there too.