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Old 06-26-2009, 11:20 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by alvrb211 View Post
Come on now. The war is over!

World politics have changed. It's all about global north/global south nations now.

India's GNI is only 3 times the size of Wal-Mart. China's GNI is only 6 times the size of Wal-Mart. How's that for perspective?.........


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I've got perspective because I took that class just last week. If Walmart were a country it would be among the top 20 in the world (measured by GDP). So, let's not act like India and China are immaterial. Their workers affect the U.S. worker just as much as the workers Walmart employs, whom many of which work in labor camps in China, by the way.

I see you point-we're all connected, but I think you should see mine also. We should use that connection to bring some other countries workers working conditions and pay up, not allow ours to go down.

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