Reply #8: Wal-Mart is more of a symptom of the decline of the middle class [View All]

[chieftain]

than a cause.Free Trade and unchecked immigration among other things are the tools of today's union busters. We are in a race to the bottom where products manufactured in the sweat shops of Saipan and sold in Wal-Mart are the only items that Americans will be able to afford.
We have outsourced our jobs, opened our borders and transferred our wealth. The social compact that the Democrats were able to enact during the 4o's and enhance in the 50's and 60's is under successful attack by conservatives who have vilified the true human progress that Democrats and Labor won .
So I am all for criticizing Wal-Mart's miserly compensation and benefit packages.We should not delude ourselves into thinking that throwing rocks at the house Sam Walton built is anything other than personally cathartic. We need to address the real problems created by the reconcentration of wealth that is sponsored by Republicans and enabled by passive Democrats like those that voted for the abomination of a bankruptcy bill.