[Leica] OT ! a naked walmart

[msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small)]

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

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