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Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo

By Jeralyn, Section Social Justice
Posted on Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 11:21:43 PM EST
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It's Wal-Mart day at Huffington Post. My entry is Wal-Mart: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor.....

I hope you will read them all....and see the movie.

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    Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo | 10 comments (10 topical)
    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#1)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:18 PM EST
    Good articles all. I especially liked this bit from the chinese factory article...
    Princess also spoke directly to the owners of Wal-Mart, asking a fairly simple question that has resonated through the ages: Why do so many work for nothing, while a few have everything?
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    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:20 PM EST
    Bought a microwave oven there last week and it was $20 less that the same oven elsewhere. The lady that checked my reciept at the door told me as I left 'God bless you and have a nice evening. Now there is a real reason the Left should hate Wal-Mart! ;).

    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#4)
    by glanton on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:20 PM EST
    jimcee, So have you bought John Gibson's "book" yet? Beware--forget real issues, the war on Christmas is upon thee! Ever occur to you that the 'war on religion' is primarily a fabrication of the Right, rather than the other way around? Nahh, it wouldn't have.....

    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:20 PM EST
    How dare they make war against observing the birthday of that great religious figure Sol Invictus! Happy dies natalis Solis Invicti Everyone! -jimcee, I've got many better reasons than that for not giving my dollars to Wally World.

    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#6)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:20 PM EST
    Glanton, No I didn't buy Gibson's book and I don't believe there is a war on X-mas but it does seem that some folks get awfully offended by a creche in the town square and I'm not sure why. It seems pretty petty to me. I find do it odd that the Christmas tree is called a holiday tree in many places. It's a Christmas tree no matter what you call it. I guess one could refer to the Menorah as a flat candelabra but it's still a Menorah. I think what bothers me more than anything is the Orwellian renaming of things that really don't need renaming. Christmas is Christmas, Haunakhah is Haunakhah (sp?), Ramadan is..well you get the point. Live and let live I say. The Left really excels at that renaming thingee and that seems rather pointless. Whatever happed to tolerance? 'Happy Holidays' is fine by me but if you want to be perpetually offended by everyday traditions then you really need to find a hobby.

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    by glanton on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:20 PM EST
    The Left really excels at that renaming thingee and that seems rather pointless. Whatever happed to tolerance?
    See, this is exactly what I'm trying, albeit in an overly sarcastic way, to suggest to you. What you're talking about is very largely made up, not real, fabricated, synthetic..... Look. I am not Christian, and while my parents were sympathetic to Christianity, they were always pretty milquetoast practitioners at most. Yet we always celebrated Christmas, called it Christmas. We still do. The holiday is bound up in American consciousness, for the religious and nonreligious alike. Are there some hard core types out there who make fools of themselves by trying to rename things? Of course. But what bothers me about this whole thing is the hyperbole of it. When you say "Left" pn this blog or even on MSM, things have developed to the point that you are taken to mean "Democrat" or "Liberal" or--more to the point, anyone who doesn;t vote Republican. That may not be what you mean, but that is still the current status of your words. There is no war on Christmas, as you say. Nor will there be. And us nonreligious people will be quite happy if we are simply left alone, our children not preached to or alienated on religious grounds in the public schools. This is not asking much. Let's stop acting like it is.

    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:20 PM EST
    I like Walmart. I like Target better, though. If you look at Walmart's business model, they put third world peasants to work making stuf that I can buy for next to nothing. Even third world sweat shop wages make for a better life than subsistence farming. It's not like people have a choice between going to middle school in the suburbs or going to work in a sweat shop. It's more like going to work as a Bangkock bar hostess or going to work sewing swooshes on gym bags. If we look at our (US) pattern of industrialization, the initial moves from the farm to factory were not exactly uncontroversial. Young women were recruited to work in the mills, hence the term spinster, because they wouldn't complain. It is progress and it will lead to a better world. Walmart is leading the way. Jimbo

    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:21 PM EST
    I like Walmart. I like Target better, though....It is progress and it will lead to a better world. Walmart is leading the way. Jimbo
    Reading this, Jimbo's utter faith reminds me so strongly of Solzhenitsyn's writings of the eternal promises from the State that "True Communism" will bring paradise..any decade now. And the suckers that believed them.

    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#10)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:21 PM EST
    Glanton, Your parents and mine were probably pretty similar. Kind of agnostic. But Christmas was Chritmas not really religious but more secular. My point is that people are way too sensitive about the Christmas thing and it is driven by cheap politics not common sense. As far as I'm concerned, aside from a really good feast (read: Prime rib and Yorkshire Pudding), there isn't much religion involved in my X-mas. As a matter of fact those that come to my Christmas table are secular Jewish, Muslim, Methodist (me) and agnostic (my wife). My point is stop being offended by things that are simply nonsensical but some folks can't help themselves. By the bye, we may discuss politics at dinner but in a most genial way. I'm not a Republican and you are right by leaving labels behind. We discuss politics without labels and end up all as Liberatarians. Of course the after dinner spliff doesn't hurt. Happy Thanksgiving, which is as secular as you can get.

    Re: Wal-Mart Day at HuffPo (none / 0) (#11)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:06:21 PM EST
    It is progress and it will lead to a better world
    For who...the Waltons? There is no reason to treat workers so poorly...except greed.

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