Re: Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!

Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> LOL.  You foolish leftists demonstrate almost no knowledge of basic 
> economics.
> 
> With companies like Wal-Mart driving prices downward, in the long run 
> people will be able to afford to buy almost everything.
> 
> Over the past two centuries prices have declined until an average man 
> can afford luxuries that even Kings couldn't buy previously.

and that's a good thing?  that any one of us could walk into walmart
right now and buy their fill of press board furniture, cheap shoes,
infant formula with additives not proven to do diddly for the babies
(that walmart illegally advertises), and fabric not worth putting the
time into making it into a pillowcase- *that* is a good thing?  And
then, when the world runs out of energy to make more, they'll all end
up in the landfills where they belonged in the first place.  (except
the babies who belonged at their mother's breast.)  I'm sorry, I just
don't see that endless purchasing is a good thing for the world,
especially when most of it is just junk.

> 
> In the long run, all those American dollars in foreign countries can 
> only be used to be returned to the USA and spent for something.  In the 
> long run those cheap laborers in foreign countries will start demanding 
> wages sufficient to allow them to purchase products that they are 
> making.  In the long run the market for US knowledge and technical 
> products will continue to expand.

what a bizarre optimism.  How is that money coming back to the US? 
When all the impoverished Chinese and Thai "subcontractors" take their
luxurious vacations here?!

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Kate, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/advantages-of-formula.html   
..misguided propaganda on
infant feeding should be punished as the most criminal form of 
sedition....anyone who ignorantly or lightly, causes a baby to be fed
on
unsuitable milk, may be guilty of that child's death." ~ Dr. Cicely
Williams in
1939.
       http://www.thememoryhole.org/index.htm