Reply #3: Smokescreen alert [View All]

[terrisel]

Walmart is far from the only corporate employer that contracts with companies using underpaid illegal workers.

If you boycott Walmart you also need to boycott chicken---who do you think is working in the chicken processing factories ?

The real question here to me is: Why the raid on Walmart ?

Does Walmart not contribute sufficiently to the right political campaigns ?

Are there people in the Department of Justice with conscience who were simply outraged about the $2.00 per day cited in this case ?
Is the $2.00 per day accurate or hype?

I am thinking that perhaps this raid was on-the-level since in was supposedly initiated in 1998 but I far too many of the companies that I deal with have employees that I believe are illegal for me to become outraged about Walmart.

However I don't shop there anyway-just don't want to give any more of my limited dollars to a supercorporation. I try to find the micromarket alternatives and just buy less if the prices are higher.

(I keep wondering if we need these corporations - or if they are costing us more than they are worth).

Hey, did you see the NY times article today on the Chinese company that opened a plant in South Carolina ? I bet they are not hiring illegal immigrants.

I had been wondering where those weird refrigerators in Home Depot (that I looked at but did not buy) came from.......now I know.