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To the editor: I think bringing in Wal-Mart is a good idea! If you
don't believe in equal wages for women, if you don't believe that
hiring illegal aliens is wrong, if you don't believe in
discriminating against the disabled, if you don't believe in pouring
money into the American-made products or the old "made in America,"
if you don't believe in providing health care for the working poor,
then I think Wal-Mart is for you.
Here in Arizona I have seen for myself the destruction of this
corporation. I have worked as an eligibility worker for welfare. A
very big percentage of my applicants for the state health care
program were Wal-Mart employees. I ask you, Who really is paying for
their health care? Certainly not Wal-Mart. It is you and I, the
taxpayers. If the CEO would take a small fraction of a pay cut and
pour that money back into the company for health care, taxpayers
would benefit as well.
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Seventy-five percent of products manufactured by factories in
China for Wal-Mart are sold in the American stores. Wal-Mart owns
the monopoly in importing cheap labor and cheap products from
foreign countries. The foreign countries are getting richer because
of this monopoly.
I ask you before you support Wal-Mart to ask yourself, What ever
happened to Sam Walton's vision of "made by Americans and for
Americans"?
Wake up, Lincoln. Wal-Mart is not for communities in need. It is
for the greedy CEOs in need of more pocket change.
Let's get mom and pop back into business. After all, they are
Lincoln's foundation.
Sincerely,
Cathy Nash
(Posted Nov. 29, 2005)
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