Which one damages America more: shopping at Wal-mart where nothing is made in USA or driving SUVs?
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Driving to Wal-mart in your SUV.
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don't shop where you harbor resentment...\nthat would include USA>>>>>
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Of Course!  \n\nThe documentary you seen seems quite accurate.  I stopped shopping there years ago with no desire to return.  The links below will direct you to more articles relating to the company.  Good or bad, their history speaks for them.\n\nI believe most of us now understand the crimes of Walmart.  I wish the focus would turn more towards investigating McDonald's, Coka Cola and other fast food/soft drink giants for poisioning the world with drugs that addict children and adults.  Not to mention the unethical way these companies do business as well. \n  \nAs far as the car question, I stopped driving over a year ago due to the rediculious gas prices.  I don't wish to support the current administration (which by the way SUPPORTS Wal-mart).  I have found biking and walking to be the best way to go.  Public transportation only when needed for extreme long distances.  Of all the 10+ cars I owned over the years, only one was foreign which was old and used.    \n\n:)\nPeace
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Personally, I think Walmart is nothing but a greedy corporate giant that doesn't care about anything but making money. They treat their employees like crap(I used to work there) and have the worst benefits you can think of. If it wasn't for other stores being so far away I wouldn't even shop at Walmart, but the Walmart in my town is only about a mile away. I really have no choice. I don't like it, but I do it anyway. :(\n\nI can't stand Walmart!!!
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We all get goods and services cheaper if they are produced by the most efficient provider, wherever located.  As a result, we are all driven, economically speaking, to produce what we produce best.  Like, for example, USA now is best at producing movies and jet planes.  Good for Hollywood and Boeing.  Bad for Detroit.  But the car from overseas seems to be more desirable than the car from the US to most US consumers.
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I don't think you're really posing this as a question, as much as a general gripe, and I can understand your frustration very well. \n\nOne response would simply be to note that the US economy has swung quite forcefully to a service employment base. It can be argued that it's not always necessary to manufacture the product, as long as enough people are employed in the fields that move, deliver, market and sell the product. \n\nEvery car in the world can be made in Outer Mongolia, but someone has to ship the vehicles to the countries where the buyers wait, someone has to program the computers to track the shipments, someone has to unload the vehicles when they reach the port, someone has to write the commercials that will sell the cars, someone has to film the commercials, someone has to serve as the product spokesperson that appears in the commercial, someone has to prepare the cars for sale at the dealership, someone has to sell the customer the car, someone has to arrange their financing, and someone has to change the oil every 3,000 miles. (and you know I've left out a lot of people in the chain).\n\nYes, the United States was once much more of a manufacturing country, but the undeniable fact is that our public policy choices about the environment, about worker safety, about "fair and reasonable" pay, about retirement plans, and on and on are not shared by other countries, inevitably making it "cheaper" to manufacture many products in other places around the world.\n\nDon't forget the underlying basic premise of capitalism - companies exist for the sole purpose of returning profits to the owner/investors. Under that premise, a company MUST produce its products at the cheapest possible cost. \n\nSo let's see - if you want to blame something for the fact that most manufacturing now occurs overseas, I guess you'd have to blame either:\n\na> Workers for expecting a safe workplace\nb> Workers for expecting a decent retirement\nc> Workers for expecting a decent standard of living\nd> Customers for selecting the cheapest of two equivalent products  or\ne> The economic system of capitalism upon which just about all the historical financial success of this country has been based.\n\nIt's easy to blame the companies for every lost job, but the companies do exactly what they're programmed to do - and exactly what they've done for years and years. Jobs would have moved to China, India, and the former Soviet republics 200 years ago if the infrastructure had existed to move the products to this country, track them on the way, and build modern factories in the middle of nowhere. Blame computers, airplanes and the modernization of technology.\n\nIt's not as simple as the people who say "*#(#$*# the companies for moving all our good old American jobs overseas just so they can squeeze another couple of bucks in profits" want you to believe...\n\nThough certain people would prefer that you understand it that way.
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Been to Walmart lately?  The vast majority of their items are made there.  Bunch of junk if you ask me.  They buy for pennies and sell for dollars, not to mention that they routinely put american manufacturers out of business and switch to a foreign suppliers.  Great for Walmart, but at the expense of product quality loss of US jobs.  How do they expect us to buy their products if we don't have jobs to earn money to purchase those products?
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I am a fan of WalMart.  There are two where I live.  Many people say they hate WalMart, but I sometimes see those people shopping there.\nOne WalMart has everything including groceries, the other doesn't sell groceries or have a auto shop, it just sells parts and oil and cleaning supplies for autos.\n\nIn the both stores they sell clothes for men, women and children.  They sell shoes. They sell fabric, yarn and craft supplies.  They sell toys, plants for indoors or garden & supplies.\nThey sell outdoor furniture and some indoor furnishings, like curtains, linens, shelves, lamps, electronics, etc.  They have pharmacies.\n\nThe people who work there are pleasant and personable.  WalMarts give money to local charities.  After the Katrina hurricane, they got clean water and food to people faster than the government, and re-opened and gave people jobs.\n\nIn the newspaper today there was an article on how WalMart is using waste oil for heat, has tried to use solar energy, is using wind power to make electricty to for their stores.\n\nI hope this is what you are looking for.\nLink to green schemes story:\nhttp://www.cantonrep.com/topFive.php?vote=5&Headline=Wal-Mart+%27Green%92+Trials+and+%28Some%29+Errors&ID=319217&Category=5
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I "avoid" Wal-Mart because I don't like their business practices.  I don't boycott it completely, simply because I can't (where I live).  But I did use to live in a larger city, and I never stepped foot in it there.
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Too crowded! I avoid Wal-Mart if at all humanly possible. The parking lot is always full and the lanes between the parking areas are way too narrow, most are one-way and someone is always going the wrong way. Even the two-way lanes aren't wide enough and seem even more narrow because someone always parks with the tail-end of their car sticking out. I hate it!
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I wouldn't necessarily say that only liberals hate Wal-Mart but I would agree that a lot of us are very concerned about their business practices... with good reason.\n\nFor one, Wal Mart is owned by the wealthiest family in the world consisting of 4 brothers and sisters each worth over 20 billion dollars, the Waltons.\n\nNot saying wealth is bad but I am saying it is hard to contemplate how a family can gain so much profit while exploiting cheap labor, sweat shops in China and purposely using tactics to put small businesses in America out of business.\n\nIE, Wal Mart was convicted of price gauging in the 90s and has been charged in 3 different countries with violating monopoly laws.\n\nBut, with all that said, the #1 thing that bothers me about Wal Mart is their little known evolvement in manipulating trade tariffs between us and China. They have so much power that they literally are dictating what the trade tariffs will or won't be.
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I only buy American autos because:\n1) to keep Americans in their jobs\n2) to keep that large a sum of money from going to foreign countries\n3) if most people stop buying American cars, there won't be any and then the U.S. would be totally dependent upon foreigners which would be a very BAD thing
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The truth is that it isn't what Americans are eating but the portions of it. Leave the US and go to any other fast food outlet be it in Europe or Asia and you won't find the same giant sizes.
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From an economic standpoint they're actually quite IRrational.  Demand is almost inelastic.  While prices have risen drastically in the last few years, neither driving nor car purchase decisions have changed drastically.  While it is true that SUV sales are crashing, they're being replaced by cars that get marginally better mileage, at best.  The oil boycott of the 70s moved a massive segment of the market from big V8 sedans getting 11 mpg to tiny 4 cylinders getting 25 mpg.  These days it seems to be all image, trading the Escalade and Explorer that gets 15 mpg for the Freestyle or Pacifica that gets 18 mpg.  And there's still just one person in each vehicle...\n\nThis is, of course, the US.  But while the European model has better mileage figures and smaller cars, it is similarly stagnant to any real change.
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Shoppers(best). Walmart (worst)
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I guess Walmart has the same problem as concerned consumers who try to buy American made whenever possible.\n\nthere is a dwindling list of available products!  American companies are using cheap foreign labor to cut costs of production.  Even they won't make it in America!\n\nExample:  One brand I would buy at Walmart was Jerzees.  Made in America.  I bought a sweat shirt last week.  The label "Made in Mexico"  Walmart is not the only corporation selling out America. \n\nThe consumer doesn't have much choice anymore. American made is just too scarce.  Congress will figure out this is not good about 10 years from now and start trying to patch it up......but it will be too late.\n\nUntil then, Americans will support child labor, poor working conditions and substandard wages for everyone in the world EXCEPT us.....we want everyone to be middle class at the very least no matter what their work habits are, no matter what education level they achieve.
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it is a car made out of the usa that takes jobs away from americans.