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How many of the products on the shelves of WalMart are manufactured in the US versus in China?[/quote]

PP again -- I found the answer -- it's something like 70%!!!

[b]I don't have anything against China or the Chinese, but I can't help feeling like we are taking advantage of their lax environmental regulations, and their poor employment conditions, to get our stuff at a very cheap (to us) cost.[/b]
THe fact that if you ask the Chinese rank and file workers, they seem to like this situation, isn't exactly relevant.

If you had a slave and beat him to work 18 hours a day... then gave him better working conditions and said he only had to work 12 hours a day, he'd say he was doing better, wouldn't he?  So you could say it was an improvement over the former situation -- but it still wouldn't make it right to benefit from slavery.[/quote]

Make your own apple sauce and apple juice, it's easy, I do it all the time.  It is a global economy and most of America's manufacturing jobs are out-sourced. What do you buy that is made in the USA?   Many of the parts for American automobiles are made in Mexico. [b] Toyota has become more of an American  product made in the US than GM. Ford, whatever[/b].  If you don't want to shop at Wal-Mart, fine, but stop acting as though this is because you want to buy American products, manufactured by American companies that are hiring American citizens because this is not the case.  [/quote]

We have been sold out by the ruling elite.  They are so short-sighted that they do not realize that outsourcing to third wourld countries with no pollution controls is contributing to global warming, which also affects them, no matter what the gated community.

And you are right about Toyota, GM, and Ford.   The GM bailout, which will cost the American taxpayer billions in losses, was a sham.  How does a GM car designed in Korea, made in Korea, and sold in the US help the American economy?  Someone please explain.[/quote]

AMEN!  Our greed is ruining the environment.  We all live on one planet.  I feel sorry for the world our kids' are inheriting.[/quote]

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