[Leica] OT ! a naked walmart

[cmbrow at wm.edu (Chandos Michael Brown)]

Most "USians" believe that Saddam Hussein and Osama Ben Laden are blood
kin, too, Marc. So what?

And the NYRB is hardly the only source for information on Walmart's
labor practices.  See, as one of many dozens of articles, what
BusinessWeek has to say:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2004/nf20040128_6990_db01
4.htm

But it, I don't doubt, you view as yet another organ of leftist
agitprop.

Cheers!

Chandos

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc
James Small
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 6:23 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] OT ! a naked walmart

At 11:39 PM 1/8/05 -0500, Chandos Michael Brown wrote:
>"We're doing OK with Walmart."
>
>That's sorta the problem, Sonny; "We're" just doing fine with Walmart.
>It's the folks who work there who aren't.
>
>Walmart has been an exceedingly mixed blessing in my small town of
>Gloucester Court House, Virginia, as it has been for my father's small
>town of Rochester, Indiana, which goes to show how unreliable chatty
>anecdotes about its impact can be, yours or mine.
>
>I commend Simon Head's piece in the Dec. 16 issue of the New York
Review
>of Books, the latest of many reports on Walmart's labor practices.  I
>did not renew my membership in Sam's Club last month, nor will I
>patronize Walmart in the future.

Normal USians regard the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS as the US edition of
PRAVDA.  Its editorial bent is so left-wing as to have fallen off the
perch.

I have many problems with WalMart but their labor practices are not
among
them -- many of my clients are employed by WalMart and are quite happy
to
have gainful work.  My own concerns deal with their increasing trade
with
Red China, which I regard as a threat to a stable world.  (WalMart and
Sam's Club are now something like the seventh largest entity doing
business
with the ChiComs, knocking most of the Free World out of contention.)

I am a Sam's Club Business Member and I often shop at WalMart -- but I
am
quite cautious about what I buy and whence it originates.  I do not wish
to
subsidize slave labor, interminable human-rights abuses, and the like
which
originate from that nation which used to call itself the "Middle
Kingdom".

Marc

msmall@aya.yale.edu 
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