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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the years they have forced US manufacturers to produce their products, like TVs and other electronics, for example, at a low price, which sends the manufacturing jobs overseas where there is cheaper labor. Not sure how much that has lead to the 10% unemployment we have, but clearly manufacturing jobs are rapidly disappearing in this country.[/quote]

That's not really true.  Do you really think we would be buying American-made TV's if Walmart didn't exist?  Of course not.  Overseas manufacturers are low cost producers, and consumers want to buy their televisions.  Walmart does what any company does, which is to get the best deal on the products it buys, so that it can sell at low prices to you and me.  Do you really think that if Walmart never existed, that we would still be buying TV's from GE, Westinghouse, and Quasar?  I don't think a major manufacturers produced TV's here since GE stopped in the mid-80's, long before Walmart became a powerhouse in electronics.  [b]Maybe Zenith, but I think they went offshore at some point[/b].  Today they are part of LG.

The fact is that we lose manufacturing jobs because there are people in other countries who will work for lower wages and because consumers will buy their products.  Not because a retailer is a meanie.

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My dad was a plant manager for Zenith when I was a child.  He started working in the Chicago area but the jobs kept moving further and further south.  When he left the company, in the early 80's, most of the jobs and moved to Mexico.  We lived down on the Texas/Mexican border and he would commute in every day.[/quote]

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