Niman: Welfare to Wal-Mart

[GreenEarthAl]

Americans are junkies. We're addicted to consumerism. We're addicted to things--and China is our main supplier. China is the man. In 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, we imported a whopping $197 billion worth of goods from China, and exported $35 billion worth of goods to them, chalking up an I.O.U. for $161 billion in the process. China is the main supplier feeding our consumer habit, but Wal-Mart, according to the Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce, is China's biggest street pusher, responsible for slinging up to one eighth of the Chinese goods sold in the United States. If Wal-Mart were a country, it would be China's seventh largest trade partner.

Eighty percent of the more than 6,000 factories supplying Wal-Mart merchandise are located in China. This reality is shocking to Americans who've bought in to Wal-Mart's "All American" corporate persona. Thanks in large part to Wal-Mart, whose sales make up a full two percent of the United States' Gross Domestic Product, China's U.S, dollar reserves are estimated to be approaching a half trillion dollars.

http://www.corporations-suck.com/reports/Welf2Walmt.shtml

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[zbdent]

2. Welfare to Wal-Mart (and never leave welfare)

Gee, when your company instructs you on how to keep working and still collect on welfare (if it had been done by a contributor to Kerry, it would be all over the "Liberal Media") . . .