03-12-2007, 12:14 AM
Dear Greg,
I think that you are making quite a few assumptions about what I wrote instead of just reading what I wrote.
I never said Wal Mart should have a Union -- although that would be good for their employees. Costco does not have a Union, to my knowledge. I only mentioned Safeway as probably being Union. I was responding to someone who said that Safeway paid what the big box stores do--they don't, they pay better.
You didn't speak to the fact that the cheap goods we buy (and Wal Mart is NOT always cheapest!) are made possible on the back of human suffering. This is distasteful to me. It is also reprehensible to me that the America that I love and the democracy that I cherish is being inalterably changed due to the greed of a few. We will all pay to make the Waltons the richest people in, is it, the world. I think that sucks.
It was a Roosevelt, Franklin, I think, who said that capitalism without restraints was the biggest threat to democracy.
WalMart's impact on the America that we know and love is much deeper and far-reaching than simply being non-union and low-paying. As for Costco serving a different class... Perhaps. But on Maui, I see a wide spectrum of shoppers in Costco. I usually buy food there. I can't speak about BI as I've never shopped in the Costco there.
Watch the documentary and then we can discuss it.
Very sincerely yours,
april
I think that you are making quite a few assumptions about what I wrote instead of just reading what I wrote.
I never said Wal Mart should have a Union -- although that would be good for their employees. Costco does not have a Union, to my knowledge. I only mentioned Safeway as probably being Union. I was responding to someone who said that Safeway paid what the big box stores do--they don't, they pay better.
You didn't speak to the fact that the cheap goods we buy (and Wal Mart is NOT always cheapest!) are made possible on the back of human suffering. This is distasteful to me. It is also reprehensible to me that the America that I love and the democracy that I cherish is being inalterably changed due to the greed of a few. We will all pay to make the Waltons the richest people in, is it, the world. I think that sucks.
It was a Roosevelt, Franklin, I think, who said that capitalism without restraints was the biggest threat to democracy.
WalMart's impact on the America that we know and love is much deeper and far-reaching than simply being non-union and low-paying. As for Costco serving a different class... Perhaps. But on Maui, I see a wide spectrum of shoppers in Costco. I usually buy food there. I can't speak about BI as I've never shopped in the Costco there.
Watch the documentary and then we can discuss it.
Very sincerely yours,
april
april