Interesting. My son just put in an application for WalMart because their starting wage is higher than Sears, where he works now.
I don't see anyone protesting Sears, of course. LuAnn ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept... Walmart carries garment quality fabric? ************* Depends on the garment.... I found one of my fave fabrics at Wal-mart: large, colorful, realistic tropical fish floating in a white void. Made a great Hawaiian shirt! ************** and now...OT.... I saw on Showtime an installment of the Penn and Teller show "Bullsh*t" on the myth of how awful Wal-Mart was. Boy...talk about bullsh*t! For example, the "made in a sweatshop" issue [Wal-mart is not the only culprit, I know]. The apologist for sweatshops says that usually, in these poor countries, the sweatshop is a better wage than anything else, or the only jobs around. Like that justifies it. Like that is the only alternative: sweatshops or nothing. Hey...Imagine if the sweatshops weren't sweatshops! Imagine if they paid a halfway decent wage [even for whatever 3rd world country involved] instead. And get this excuse! The sweatshop apologist actually said America used to have sweatshops too, but we, over time, finally because of them, collected enough capital to get rid of them! Pu-leez! Like there wasn't "enough capital" in 19th century America. Hasn't he read an Edith Wharton novel? [probably not] America doesn't have sweatshops today [well, we're not supposed to] because of legislation, not a build up of capital. Corporations would still to this day be using child labor had we not outlawed it! [C'mon....you know that's true] Bullsh*t indeed! Then there was "the average Wal-mart employee makes over $10 an hour" ploy. Well, sure! If you include top level employees and maybe the CEOs! If you took the average income of all of us on this list, and added into it Bill Gates and Dick Cheney, our average incomes would rise considerably! Oooooooo....I hate it when they in TV land think we're dumb! OK...end of OT rant... ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com<http://www.aol.com/>. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
