Re: "Nazis Run Our Space Program" -- Peace Activist Bruce Gag-Me

From: Scott Hedrick (dinehnm_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:01:57 -0500

"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
news:112pepc2bpgio61@corp.supernews.com...
> Wal-Mart; which is one of the few surviving stores in my town of 15,000,
> thanks to their running everybody else out of business with all their
> Chinese imports.

Oh, piffle. Wal-Mart is a problem only for those businesses that try to
compete on Wal-Mart's terms, instead of on their own terms. Offer something
the public is willing to pay for that Wal-Mart doesn't, and you stay in
business. Heck, my dad used to own a hardware store, and when Wal-Mart moved
in, we lost two freeloading customers, only one of which had ever bought
anything in the store, and that sale took almost two hours for I believe
was less than $10. These two "customers" loved to squeeze me for advice, but
weren't willing to buy my stuff, so they were no loss at all. I solved one
of them by getting a clear understanding of his drain problem, and while
chatting about nothing, assembled what he needed faster than he could take
notes. Then I took it to the sales counter and started to ring it up. He
sputtered and tried to negotiate price, and I promptly began disassembling
the drain and putting the parts where he couldn't see them. He left and I
never saw him again- I know he went to Wal-Mart, which *didn't* carry what
he needed most- someone willing to teach him how to be a plumber for free.

Wal-Mart didn't do *** to my sales.

> I buy socks, underwear, shoes, and shirts at Wal-Mart
> for less than I did in 1985 despite inflation, which shows you just how
> much China undercut the American textile industry's indigenous
> production capacity.

That only happens if that's how the profits are made. The Chinese government
does not assume that its citizens are too stupid to make their own decisions
as to the value of their labor. If American industry cannot or won't carry
the cost of American labor, then it *should* go overseas. You cannot
simultaneously demand more money and more benefits and increase the cost of
labor through more regulations and expect a business to remain in business.

> The Chinese are used to living at a far lower standard of living than we
> are

*And thus, the light shines!*

If keeping jobs were really important to America, then we'd learn to live on
a whole lot less than we do. I don't blame China for the problem.

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